Every Book I Read in 2025

A walkthrough the collection of words and stories that entered my brain in the past year...

let me know what you read in 2025 and if you have any recommendations for this next year! What are you excited to read in 2026?

TIMESTAMPS
Methodology: 0:39
Theme 1: Nonfiction About Creatives 2:00
Theme 2: Food Related Narratives 6:10
Theme 3: Complex Romance and Adventure 8:28
Theme 4: Light Read, Not Silly 9:28
Theme 5: Not Corny Mysteries 11:15
Theme 6: Tough to Gobble 11:45
Theme 7: Misc: (forgot to categorize)
8. My favorite book of the year! 14:38


THE BOOKS
1. Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
2. The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker — Amy Reading
3. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
4. Be Ready When the Luck Happens - Ina Garten
5. Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed — Allison Bornstein
6. Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder — Asako Yuzuki
7. Piglet — Lottie Hazell
8. The Book of Love — Kelly Link
9. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) — Shannon Chakraborty
10. The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo
11. The Safekeep — Yael van der Wouden
12.Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) — Jesse Sutanto
13. Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) (Vera Wong, #2) — Jesse Sutanto
14.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) — Stieg Larsson
15. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) — Stieg Larsson
16. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3) — Stieg Larsson
17. The Wedding People — Alison Espach
18. The Doorman
19. Long Island Compromise — Taffy Brodesser-Akner
20. Famous Last Words — Gillian McAllister
21. The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
22. The Plot (The Book Series, #1) — Jean Hanff Korelitz
23. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) — Jean Hanff Korelitz
24. Camino Island — John Grisham
25. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess — Becca Rothfeld
26. Good Material — Dolly Alderton
27. Time Loops & Meet Cutes — Jackie Lau
28. The Best American Food and Travel Writing