I didn’t read a lot in 2025 because we were in the process of emigrating to a different continent. I’ve been spending a lot of free time learning Dutch which has cut into my reading time!
But I did take the time to pick my top 5 nonfiction and top 5 fiction books. As it turns out, I only read 5 fiction books this year!
The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Drop Dead by Lily Chu
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Valley Verified by Kyla Zhao
I read 11 nonfiction books in 2025. These were my top 5.
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World by John Vaillant
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deceloption, and Munchausen by Proxy by Andrea Dunlop and Mike Weber
Chasing Beautry: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer