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READING 2025
Attached is a list of the books I read so far
in 2025. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I
particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books
of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country
and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the
complete list of my reading since 1958, see http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
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January
1 Philip Dick 7 We can Remember it for You Wholesale
AMERICAN 20th 1 SCFI 1
2 Pearl Buck 4 *****The Good Earth AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 1
3 Samantha Harvey 1 Orbital AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL? 2
4 Deborah Levy 1 The Man Who Saw Everything BRITISH 21st 1 NOVEL 3
5 Steven Levy 1 Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
AMERICAN 21st 1 HISTORY 1
February
6 Douglas Coupland 3 Microserfs AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 4
7 Richard Powers 14 *****Playground AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 5
8 Walter Isaacson 1 Steve Jobs AMERICAN 21st 4 BIO 1
9 Gloria Lembo 1 The Complete Beginner's Guide to AI AMERICAN 21st
1 TECH 1
10 Neal Stephenson 16 Polostan AMERICAN 21st NOVEL 6
11 Alexander McCall Smith 25 The Joy and Light Bus Company
BOTSWANA 21st 1 NOVEL 7
March
12 Alexander McCall Smith 26 A Song of Comfortable Chairs
BOTSWANA 21st 2 NOVEL8
13 Alexander McCall Smith 27 From a Far and Lovely Country
BOTSWANA 21st 3 NOVEL 9
14 Alexander McCall Smith 28 The Great Hippopotamus Hotel BOTSWANA
21st 4 NOVEL 10
15 Pearl Buck 5 Sons AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 11
16 Pear Buck 6 A House Divided AMERICAN 20th 4 NOVEL 12
17 Janet Skeslien Charles 3 Miss Morgan's Book Brigade AMERICAN
21st 2 NOVEL 13
April
18 Douglas Hofstadter 3 *****I Am a Strange Loop AMERICAN 21st 3
SCIENCE 1
19 M.C. Escher 1 The Graphic Work DUTCH 20th 1 ART 1
20 Antoine de Saint-Exupery Il Piccolo Principe [in Italian]
French 20th 1 NOVEL 14
21 Anne Carson 1 Norma Jeane Baker of Troy AMERICAN 21st 4
PLAY 1
May
22 Dashiell Hammett Red Harvest [second time] AMERICAN
20th 5 NOVEL 15
23 Richard Feynman 3 QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
AMERICAN 20th SCIENCE 2
24 Tracy Chevalier 6 ***** The Glassmaker AMERICAN 21st 5
NOVEL 16
25 Derek Walcott 1 ***** Omeros ST. LUCIA 1 POETRY 1
June
26 Philip Roth 10 The Humbline AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 17
27 Evelyn Waugh 1 Brideshead Revisited BRITISH 20th 1 NOVEL 18
28 Fyodor Dostoyevsky [second time] The Brothers Karamazov
RUSSIAN 19th 1 NOVEL 19
July
29 Eric Cline 1 1177 BC, the Year Civilization Collapsed AMERICAN
21st 6 HISTORY 1
30 Geraldine Brooks 1 *****March AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL 20
31 Christopher Ehret 1 Ancient Africa: a Global History to 300 CE
AMERICAN 21st 8 HISTORY 2
32 Geraldine Brooks 2 ***Year of Wonders AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 21
33 Graldine Brooks 3 The Secret Chord AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL
22
34 Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa [second time]
AMERICAN 20th 6 NOVEL 23
August
35 Patrick Ness 1 The Knife of Never Letting Go AMERICAN 21st 11
NOVEL 24
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