Books I Read in 2025

Thoughtful, detailed descriptions of our changing natural world.

Wonderful page-turner. Authentic, likable couple deal with major differences in cultural origins and outlooks.

Very well done. Life, school, family struggles - seen through the eyes and felt by the heart of a 10-year old boy. Booker Prize winner, 1993.

Fun read! Twisty page-turner debut novel. Long-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize

A fine collection of Noonan's thoughtful and thought-provoking essays selected from those published in the Wall Street Journal.

Winner of Taiwan's most prestigious Golden Tripod Award. Cleverly disguised as a translated Japanese novel, this story will make you smile and shed a tear over the especially poignant relationship carefully and subtly developed between the traveler and her guide. (You will also likely experience cravings for Taiwanese cuisine.)

Another wild adventure by the prolific, masterful Boyle.

Thoughtful. Prayerful. Spiritual. Moving. Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.

Beautiful. Experience orbiting our mother Earth. Booker winner, 2024.

A fun, hard to put down, page turner.

Good read. Interesting, likeable, authentic characters.

Raunchy, graphic, interwoven tales of drugs, poverty and femicide in modern Mexico. Long-listed for the 2025 International Booker Prize.

Very disabled young woman in a long-term care home writes and publishes her way, with great imagination and determination, into a rather creepy place where she feels that she has more independent control over her life. Akutagawa Prize winner. International Booker long list 2025.

Excellent, important, moving piece of journalism.

Imaginative view of the remote future and the fate of humanity.

Refreshing tale about an unusual, likable woman somewhere out there "on the spectrum" of humanity. Akutagawa Prize winner.

Unique collection of stories mixing fantasy with reality.

Artfully constructed. Michaels takes the reader on a challenging, thought-provoking ride filled with unanswerable questions. "Who can say what happens when we are remembered?" Short-listed for the 2024 Booker Prize.

Beautiful, story, very well told.

Stories of Muslim women in southern India told with grace, sensitivity and humor. Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize.

Journalist author Murray tells it like it is. Excellent analysis of the October 7th massacre and its aftermath.

Wonderful debut story collection.

Excellent, comprehensive analysis of the status of nuclear energy in our world today and in the future.

Powerful debut novel (2017), widely acclaimed.

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