Books I've Read in 2025 (As of June 19, 2025)

  • Tue, Jun 17, 2025
  • 2 Min Read

In previous years, I used bold to indicate books I particularly enjoyed, but I am feeling a need to indicate fiction and nonfiction, so I’m going to bold the titles of NONFICTION books.**

  1. Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue, and Power, by Sonia Purnell
  2. Libertad, by Bessie Flores Zaldívar
  3. A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré
  4. The Secret Heart, by Suleika Dawson
  5. The Message: by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  6. Agents of Influence: Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA, by Aaron Edwards
  7. Great Expectations, by Vinson Cunningham
  8. Outrage, by Ellen Jones
  9. The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale, by James Atlas
  10. Wizard of the Kremlin, by Giuliano de Empoli
  11. Women’s Hotel, by Daniel Lavery
  12. Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales, ed. Mark Bostridge
  13. Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson
  14. Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview
  15. Stakeknife’s Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA’s Nutting Squad, and the British Spooks Who Ran the War, by Richard O’Rawe
  16. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, by Janet Malcolm
  17. In Search of J.D. Salinger, by Ian Hamilton
  18. Herzog, by Saul Bellow
  19. Heaven’s Command, by Jan Morris
  20. Karla’s Choice, by Nick Harkaway
  21. Pax Britannica, by Jan Morris
  22. Death in the Downline, by Maria Abrams
  23. Her Husband: Hughes & Plath, a Marriage, by Diane Middlebrook
  24. Jackal, by Erin A. Adams
  25. The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films, by James Miller
  26. Time Will Tell, by Rita Mae Brown
  27. Hang on St. Christopher, by Adrian McKinty
  28. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, by Gary J. Bass
  29. Spent: A Comic Novel, by Alison Bechdel
  30. Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King, by Gareth Russell
  31. All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, by Michael Woolf
  32. Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son, by Lionel Barber
  33. Sealed With a Hiss, by Rita Mae Brown
  34. King of Ashes, by SA Cosby
  35. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists and the Origin of Trumpism, by John Ganz
  36. A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman, by Alice Kessler-Harris
  37. A Bookshop of One’s Own, by Jane Cholmeley
  38. Mean Moms, by Emma Rosenblum
  39. Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me, by Deirdre Bair (re-read)
  40. Rubyfruit Jungle, by Rita Mae Brown (re-read)
  41. Refuse to Be Done, by Matt Bell
  42. You Have Unleashed a Storm: New York City’s Descent Into Chaos During America’s Most Explosive Era of Radical Violence, by David Viola
  43. The Light of Day, by Christopher Stephens and Louise Radnofsky