The Books I read (finished) in 2025
I finally got back on track with my general reading this year, and even though I didn't manage to read as much as I used to, I at the least managed to read a little more than in the previous year. Who knows, with any luck, my streak will continue and I will manage to read more regularly this year.
As usual the collection is a little eclectic, from Fantasy-series (Pullman, Potter and Lord of the Rings), to philosophy (Irvin, Seneca, Suzuki), and finally to my latest obsession: other people's diaries (Palin, and I'm currently reading Alan Rickman's diaries).
Quite the mix!
I started to read quite a few more books this year, but finally managed to get over my need to-finish-every-book that I started. So, that's progress!
But here is now the list:
The Books I finished in 2025
- Orson Welles: 1984
- William B.Irvine: A Guide to the Good Life
- Cory Doctorow: Picks and Shovels
- The complete Harry Potter Series 1-7
- Philip Pullman: Northern Lights
- Philip Pullman: The Subtle Knife
- Philip Pullman: The Amber Spyglass
- Robin Ince: Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal
- Robin Ince: Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops in Britain
- Robin Ince: On the Importance of Being Interested
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Tales from the Cafe
- Sosouke Natsukawa: The Cat Who Saved Books
- Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
- Michael Palin: There And Back - Diaries 1999-2009
- Mai Mochizuki: The Full Moon Coffee Shop
- Michael Palin: The Python Years - Diaries Vol.1
- Shunryu Suzuki: Becoming Yourself
- Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
- Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga: The Courage to be Disliked
- Natsume Soseki: I am a Cat
- Uketsu: Strange Pictures
- Dan Brown: Angels and Demons
- Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code
- Greg Jenner: A Million Years in Day
- Uketsu: Strange Houses
- Jason Rekulak: Hidden Pictures
As usually I read some of these as actual books, and some others in audio-book form. Of the latter, Andy Serkis's reading of the LOTR stood out by a huge margin! His reading is brilliant. I will still have to read "The Silmarillion" this year.
As usual a list of books I read since to 2015 (!) can be found in the book-log.