Here is a list of all the books I completed reading in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I finished reading 28 books this year, which is the least amount of books I’ve read in a year in a long time. In 1997, I read 28 books, and every year since then I’ve read between 33 and 75 books. Until this year. Refer to the post below, “Movies I Saw in 2025,” for an explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The shortest book I read this year is Benito Cereno<\/em>, by Herman Melville, with only 78 pages. The longest book on this list is the 462-page An Immense World<\/em>, by Ed Yong. I read three of these books for school; besides the Melville novel, this also includes One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/em> and The Yellow Birds<\/em>. This trio of novels, plus A Father Reads to His Children <\/em>and When We Cease to Understand the World<\/em> are the only fiction books on the list. My five favorite books from the year appear in bold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is a list of all the books I completed reading in 2025. I finished reading 28 books this year, which is the least amount of books I’ve read in a year in a long time. In 1997, I read 28 books, and every year since then I’ve read between 33 and 75 books. 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