2025 Reading Log
January
The Last Gentleman (Walker Percy)
The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande)
Longitude (Dava Sobel)
A Little Less Broken (Marian Schembari)
Sharpe’s Rifles (Bernard Cornwell)
Why We Die (Venki Ramakrishnan)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Metamorphoses Book XV (Ovid) (in Latin)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Blue at the Mizzen (Patrick O’Brian)
February
The Perfect Mile (Neal Bascomb)
Sharpe’s Havoc (Bernard Cornwell)
A Quoi Revent Les Jeunes Filles (Alfred de Musset) (in French)
21—The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Patrick O’Brian)
The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Kathryn Aalto)
Better (Atul Gawande)
Honey, Olives, Octopus (Christopher Bakken)
Sharpe’s Eagle (Bernard Cornwell)
This is New York (E.B. Whie)
Couples (John Updike)
Time’s Arrow (Martin Amis)
Master and Commander (Patrick O’Brian)
Jaws (Peter Benchley)
Merrily We Roll Along (George Furth)
The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City (Margaret Creighton)
Iliados Book IX (Homer) (in Greek)
March
The History of the Medieval World (Susan Bauer)
Through the Language Lens (Guy Deutscher)
Sharpe’s Gold (Bernard Cornwell)
The Hunt for Planet X (Govert Schilling)
The Small House at Allington (Anthony Trollope)
The Art of Travel (Alain de Botton)
A Burning in My Bones (Winn Collier)
Dead Lions (Mick Herron)
I Am Charlotte Simmons (Tom Wolfe)
On Looking (Alexandra Horowitz)
Reconstruction (Mick Herron)
Georgics, Book 1 (Virgil) (in Latin)
Smoke and Whispers (Mick Herron)
Atomic Habits (James Clear)
Post Captain (Patrick O’Brian)
Careless People (Sarah Wynn-Williams)
April
Morality (Jonathan Sacks)
My Year of Running Dangerously (Tom Foreman)
H.M.S. Surprise (Patrick O’Brian)
Andre de Sarto (Alfred de Musset) (in French)
My Father’s Tears (John Updike)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Truman Capote)
The Urban Naturalist (Menno Schilthuizen)
Real Tigers (Mick Herron)
How Do We Look? (Mary Beard)
The List (Mick Herron)
Museums and Women (John Updike)
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Amy Tan)
True Companions (Kelly Flanagan)
Things That Go Bump in the Universe (C. Renee James)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace)
Letters to Children (C.S. Lewis)
Iliados Book X (Homer) (in Greek)
Henry V (William Shakespeare)
The Marylebone Drop (Mick Herron)
The Absence of Mr. Glass (G.K. Chesterton)
The Catch (Mick Herron)
The Last Dead Letter Drop (Mick Herron)
The Kitchen God’s Wife (Amy Tan)
Standing By the Wall (Mick Herron)
Altared (Pamela Almand)
May
The Mauritius Command (Patrick O’Brian)
The Geometry of Love (Margaret Visser)
Spook Street (Mick Herron)
Georgics, Book II (Virgil) (in Latin)
On Booze (Ernest Hemmingway)
A Book of Voyages (Patrick O’Brian)
Trivium21c (Martin Robinson)
Uncommon Measure (Natalie Hodges)
True Raiders (Brad Ricca)
Desolation Island (Patrick O’Brian)
Ancient Egyptian Literature (Miriam Lichtheim)
The Taking of K-129 (Josh Dean)
Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)
Le Caprices de Marianne (Alfred de Musset) (in French)
Table for Two (Amor Towles)
Sharpe’s Escape (Bernard Cornwell)
Knife (Salman Rushdie)
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
Memorial Days (Geraldine Brooks)
June
Dolphin Junction (Mick Herron)
The End of Your Life Book Club (Will Schwalbe)
Oh, What a Luxury! (Garrison Keillor)
The Fortune of War (Patrick O’Brian)
Birdie’s Bargain (Katherine Paterson)
What Are People For? (Wendell Berry)
Sharpe’s Fury (Bernard Cornwell)
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Robert Galbraith)
Iliados Book XI (Homer) (in Greek)
The Silkworm (Robert Galbraith)
Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith)
Microbe Hunters (Paul de Kruif)
Reclaiming Quiet (Sarah Clarkson)
Lethal White (Robert Galbraith)
The Idea of the Holy (Rudolph Otto)
Georgics, Book III (Virgil) (in Latin)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
July
The Surgeon’s Mate (Patrick O’Brian)
London Rules (Mick Heron)
Jayber Crow (Wendell Berry)
Sharpe’s Battle (Bernard Cornwell)
Fantasio (Albert de Musset) (in French)
Original Sin (Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper)
Summer of the Monkeys (Wilson Rawls)
The Afterlife (John Updike)
The Housemaid (Freida McFaddeN0
Iliados, Book XII (Homer) (in Greek)
The Ionian Mision (Patrick O’Brian)
A Man in Full (Tom Wolfe)
Fever Beach (Carl Hiaasen)
August
Sharpe’s Company (Bernard Cornwell)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)
Troubled Blood (Robert Galbraith)
The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkein)
The Ink Black Heart (Robert Galbraith)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John LeCarre)
The Running Grave (Robert Galbraith)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anon)
Georgics, Book IV (Virgil) (in Latin)
How It Went (Wendell Berry)
My Friends (Fredrik Backman)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
The Suppliant Women (Aeschylus)
The Last Chronicle of Barset (Anthony Trollope)
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Oedipus at Kolonos (Sophocles)
The Only Problem (Muriel Spark)
Joe Country (Mick Herron)
Philoktetes (Sophocles)
Slough House (Mick Herron)
September
Treason’s Harbour (Patrick O’Brian)
The Hallmarked Man (Robert Galbraith)
Bad Actors (Mick Herron)
Virgil Wander (Leif Enger)
Clown Town (Mick Herron)
The Wild Birds (Wendell Berry)
Our Only World (Wendell Berry)
Fear of Flying (Erica Jong)
Tales from the Pit (Mark Gould)
The Finishing School (Muriel Spark)
Sharpe’s Sword (Bernard Cornwell)
Pretty Good Jokes (Garrison Keillor)
October
Class Clown (Dave Barry)
So Brave, Young, and Handsome (Leif Enger)
Updike (Adam Begley)
The Descent of the Dove (Charles Williams)
Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare)
The Frogs (Aristophanes)
A Parliament of Women (Aristophanes)
The Far Side of the World (Patrick O’Brian)
Resurrection Men (Ian Rankin)
Lysistrata (Arisophanes)
Lorenzaccio (Alfred de Musset) (in French)
Ginger Pye (Eleanor Estes)
After I Do (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
Long Live Latin (Nicola Gardini)
The Reverse of the Medal (Patrick O’Brian)
When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows (Steven Pinker)
The Girls of Slender Means (Muriel Spark)
A Shropshire Lad (A.E. Housman)
November
The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Complete Fragments of Sappho (in Greek)
The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkein)
Epistles of Erasmus (in Latin)
Total Recall (Philip K. Dick)
The Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot)
The Memory of Old Jack (Wendell Berry)
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving)
Strip Jack (Ian Rankin)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
John Williams (Tim Grieving)
The Histories (Herodotus)
An Immense World (Ed Yong)
Running Man (Charlie Engle)
Love’s Labour Lost (William Shakespeare)
December
Left for Dead (Beck Weathers)
My Man Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
Race in a Post-Obama America (David Maxwell)
Sharpe’s Storm (Bernard Cornwell)
The Inimitable Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
Standing by Words (Wendell Berry)
The Highly Sensitive Person (Elaine Aron)
The Letter of Marque (Patrick O’Brian)
Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian)
The Snow Leopard (Peter Matthiessen)
The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkein)
The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide (Ted Zeff)
Truth and Lies (Mark Bowden)
Classical Rhetoric (Edward Corbett)
Going Postal (Terry Pratchett)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
The White Goddess (Robert Graves)
