Books read in 2025

■ The Repeat Room (Jesse Ball; 2024. Fiction.) LIB 
Barren Lives (Graciliano Ramos; 1938. Fiction.) RFS
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi; 2015/2020. Fiction.) RFS
Brightly Shining (Ingvild Rishøi; 2024. Fiction.) RFS
Dayswork (Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel; 2023. Fiction.) RFS
The Guide (Peter Heller; 2021. Fiction.) RFS
Fat Ham (James Ijames; 2022. Drama.) RFS
Where the World Ends (Geraldine McCaughrean; 2017. Fiction.) RFS
Whale Fall (Elizabeth O’Connor; 2024. Fiction.) RFS
Hamlet (William Shakespeare; 1601. Drama.) RFS *
Whale Fall (Daniel Krause; 2024. Fiction.) RFS
The Fact of a Body (Alexandria Mariano-Lesnevich; 2017. Non-fiction.) RFS

The God of the Woods (Liz Moore; 2024. Fiction.) RFS
Betrayal (Harold Pinter; 1983. Drama.) RFS
Purgatorio (Dante; 1321 (trans. Robin Kirkpatrick; 2007). Poetry.) RFS *
Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver; 2022. Fiction.) RFS
The Odyssey (Homer (trans. Emily Wilson; 2018). Poetry.) RFS *
The Winter’s Tale (William Shakespeare; 1610. Drama.) RFS *
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (James McBride; 2022. Fiction.) RFS
The Death of Ivan Ilych & Confession (Leo Tolstoy (trans. Peter Carson; 2014). Fiction.) RFS
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Amy Tan; 2024. Non-fiction.) RFS

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World  (Naomi Klein; 2023. Non-fiction.) RFS
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Herman Melville; 1851. Fiction.) RFS *
Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver; 2000. Fiction.) RFS
The House of My Mother (Shari Franke; 2025. Non-fiction.) LIB
Herman Melville (Elizabeth Hardwick; 2000. Non-fiction.) RFS
Captains of the Sands (Jorge Amado; 1937 (trans. Gregory Rabassa; 1988). Fiction.) RFS
Lord of the Flies (William Golding; 1954. Fiction.) RFS *
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James; 1881. Fiction.) RFS
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth about My Father (April Balascio; 2025. Non-fiction.) ATY
Frindle (Andrew Clements; 1996. Fiction.) RFS *

The Heart of American Poetry (ed. Edward Hirsch; 2022. Poetry.) ATY
Henry V (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.) RFS *
The Tempest (William Shakespeare; 1610. Drama.) RFS *
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald; 1925. Fiction.) RFS *
I Meant to Kill Ye: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (Stephanie Reents; 2018. Non-fiction.) ATY
Frida Kahlo (Mike Venezia; 2016. Non-fiction.) LIB
Frida Kahlo (Button Books; 2022. Non-fiction.) LIB
Frida Kahlo (Jill A. Laidlaw; 2003. Non-fiction.) LIB
I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems (Sarah Ruden; 2025. Non-fiction.) ATY
Purgatorio (Dante; 1321 (trans. Robin Kirkpatrick; 2007). Poetry.) RFS *
Berlin (Jason Lutes; 2018. Graphic fiction.) RFS
Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems (Carlos Drummond de Andrade (trans. Richard Zenith; 2016). Poetry.) ATY
Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West (Cormac McCarthy; 1985. Fiction.) RFS
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (Ada Limón, ed., 2024. Poetry.) RFS

The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector; 1977 (trans. Benjamin Moser; 2011). Fiction.) RFS *
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad; 1899. Fiction.) RFS *
The Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot; 1947. Poetry.) RFS
Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood; 2024. Fiction.) RFS
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (John Green; 2025. Non-fiction.) ATY
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Sarah Wynn-Williams; 2025. Non-fiction.) ATY
The Iliad (Homer (trans. Emily Wilson; 2023). Poetry.) RFS
The Frindle Files (Andrew Clements; 2025. Fiction.) ATY
Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World (Ella Frances Sanders; 2022. Non-fiction.) ATY

Vilhelm Hammershøi: Silence (Felix Krämer and Florian Illies; 2024. Non-fiction.) ATY
Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West (Cormac McCarthy; 1985. Fiction.) RFS *
Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy (Mortimer J. Adler; 1978. Non-fiction.) RFS
The Lover (Marguerite Duras; 1985. Fiction.) ATY
Bug Hollow (Michelle Huneven; 2025. Fiction.) ATY
The Dream Hotel (Laila Lalami; 2025. Fiction.) ATY
No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy; 2005. Fiction.) RFS

Under the Eye of the Big Bird (Hiromi Kawakami; 2025. Fiction.) ATY
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro; 1989. Fiction.) RFS *
It Rhymes with Takei (George Takei; 2025. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
Kill Your Darlings (Peter Swanson; 2025. Fiction.) LIB

David Copperfield (Charles Dickens; 1850. Fiction.) RFS
North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell; 1855. Fiction.) RFS
Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things (Joel P. Christensen; 2025. Non-fiction.) ATY
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 (Lionel Shriver; 2016. Fiction.) RFS *
Excellent Women (Barbara Pym; 1952. Fiction.) RFS
Song of Myself (Walt Whitman; 1892. Poetry.) RFS
Possession (A.S. Byatt; 1990. Fiction) RFS
El Dorado Drive (Megan Abbott; 2025. Fiction) ATY

The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle; ~340 BCE. Non-fiction) RFS
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction (Michael Pakaluk; 2005. Non- fiction) ATY
Where Angels Fear to Tread (E.M. Forster; 1905. Fiction) RFS
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part I (Hannah Arendt; 1951. Non-fiction) RFS
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens; 1859. Fiction) RFS
Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life (Edith Hall; 2018. Non-fiction) ATY
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir (Werner Herzog; 2022. Non-fiction) RFS
Shuna’s Journey (Hayao Miyazaki; 1983/2022. Graphic fiction) OTH
The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion; 2005. Non-fiction) RFS *
We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (Alyssa Wilkinson; 2025. Non-fiction) ATY
The Inner Game of Tennis (W. Timothy Gallwey; 1974. Non-fiction) ATY

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauly Murray (Rosalind Rosenberg; 2017. Non-fiction) RFS
Native Son (Richard Wright; 1940. Fiction) RFS
The Longest Journey (E.M. Forster; 1907. Fiction) RFS
The Future of Truth (Werner Herzog; 2025. Non-fiction) ATY
The Impossible Fortune (Richard Osman; 2025. Fiction) ATY
Fixed Ideas: America Since 9/11 (Joan Didion; 2003. Fiction) ATY
The Odyssey (Homer (trans. Daniel Mendelsohn; 2025). Poetry.) ATY
The Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G. Wells; 1896. Fiction.) RFS *

The Time Machine (H.G. Wells; 1895. Fiction.) RFS *
The Dispossessed (Ursula K. LeGuin; 1974. Fiction.) RFS
The Iliad (Homer (translated by Stanley Lombardo; 1997). Poetry.) ATY
A Room with a View (E.M. Forster; 1908. Fiction.) RFS
Bleak House (Charles Dickens; 1859. Fiction.) RFS
Golem (David Wisniewski; 1996. Fiction.) ATY
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon; 2000. Fiction.) RFS

The Oppermans (Lion Feuchtwanger; 1933. Fiction.) RFS
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner (Natalie Dykstra; 2024. Non-fiction.) RFS
Love Begins in Winter (Simon Van Booy; 2009. Fiction.) RFS
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Herman Melville; 1851. Fiction.) RFS *
A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (Ida Fink; 1983/1987. Fiction.) ATY
Crooked Plow (Itamar Viera Junior; 2023. Fiction.) RFS
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RFS read from shelves
ATY acquired this year
LIB library (including Hoopla and Libby)
OTH other
* Denotes a reread