Here's a wrap-up of my reading in 2025:
Number of re-reads this year: 30, which is 11%. I've never reread so many books as I have this year. I don't know why I am now a rereader.
Non-fiction: 120, which is 45% and Fiction: 145, which is 55%. That's about right for me.
Shortest and longest books.
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First and last books of the year.
It's interesting to me that my first book was a dystopia, 1984, in which people are facing authoritarianism, and that the last book was a dystopia, Oasis, in which people are facing AI robots.
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For my favorite fiction book of the year, I chose Lonesome Dove, a book I've read and reread a half dozen times. For nonfiction, I picked Team of Rivals, about the amazing political abilities of Abraham Lincoln, a president who chose to use all those who had run against him in an advisory manner in his Cabinet.
The Story of a Heart is a heart-breaker, and it is true.
I am so happy I got to attend the Texas Book Festival again this year.
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up read in 2025.
I read 14 more 1001 Children's Books in 2025, giving me a total of 804 read so far.
Classics Club books read in 2025.
I read 22 Classics Club books. I finished off my fourth list, and I started my fifth list. I've read 219 classics so far.
2025 Challenges.
I greatly enjoyed participating in the 2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge hosted by Book'd Out; 2025 Back to the Classics Challenge which I created myself based on challenges from the past; Nick's 2025 American Masterpieces/Chapter-a-Day Challenge; Intrepid Reader's 2025 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge; Cook the Books; The 20 Books of Summer hosted by Words and Peace and AnnaBookBel; and the Big Books of Summer Challenge hosted by Book by Book.
