2025 reading list - The year in reading, cover to cover

 Launching into 2026, we can say that 2025 is in the books. (Sorry, had to.)

 Tracking my annual reads, as usual, I hereby submit my reading list for the past year. I'm only listing cover-to-cover reads, and inclusion does not necessarily imply endorsement.

 Books are listed alphabetically (by title) and unsorted (by genre). 

1. Back Story, Robert B. Parker
2. Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer
3. Between Sisters, Kristin Hannah
4. Daily Rebellion: The Everyday Fight to Press Pause, Kevin S. Taylor
5. Divine, Karen Kingsbury
6. Drop Shot, Harlan Coben
7. Fatal Burn, Lisa Jackson
8. Heaven Help Us, John Kasich
9. It’s Not My Fault: The No-Excuse Plan for Overcoming Life’s Obstacles, Henry Cloud and John Townsend
10. Lifeguard, James Patterson and Andrew Gross
11. Lion & Lamb, James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski
12. Nobody’s Fool, Harlan Coben
13. One by One, Freida McFadden
14. One Perfect Couple, Ruth Ware
15. Potshot, Robert B. Parker
16. Second Honeymoon, James Patterson and Howard Roughan
17. She’s Not Sorry, Mary Kubica
18. Shelterwood, Lisa Wingate
19. Sisters Under the Rising Sun, Heather Morris
20. Still See You Everywhere, Lisa Gardner
21. Take Three, Karen Kingsbury
22. The Art of Losing, Lizzy Mason
23. The Blue Hour, Paula Hawkins
24. The Boyfriend, Freida McFadden
25. The Coworker, Freida McFadden
26. The Crash, Freida McFadden
27. The Girl Who Survived, Lisa Jackson
28. The Next Accident, Lisa Gardner
29. The Race, Richard North Patterson
30. The Silkworm, Robert Galbraith
31. Three Sisters, Susan Mallery
32. Touch and Go, Lisa Gardner
33. Unspoken, Lisa Jackson
34. Ward D, Freida McFadden
35. We All Live Here, Jojo Moyes
36. We Are Stronger Together, Julie Bayles
37. Willing to Die, Lisa Jackson

 This lineup does not include any books I authored, edited, or produced. It omits the Bible, Bible studies, children's books I read (again and again), cookbooks, daily devotionals, magazines, newspapers, reference books (such as atlases, dictionaries, and encyclopedias), and so on. It's simply a list of full-length, cover-to-cover reads (to-date) for the year.

 Book titles hyperlink to Amazon, when possible. (Disclaimer: I'm an Amazon Affiliate, so I may earn a very small commission from orders placed through links on my sites.

My life-plate was rather full in 2025, so my reading list is a bit shorter than in recent years. I hope to carve out more time between the pages during these next 12 months.

 

What are you reading in 2026?

 

I welcome recommendations of worthy reads to add to my TBR (to-be-read) list. Got any outstanding titles to recommend? Please comment with the details. Thank you!

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Here's my 2024 reading list - 56 titles read

2024 book list: Here's my reading list from the year.

 Now that 2024 has been swept into history, I think it’s fair to say that the past year offered plenty of ups and downs. (It was a page-turner for sure!) And despite all the excitement, I spent considerable time diving into books. (Maybe you did too!)

 

 Continuing my pattern of tracking annual reads, here’s my reading list for the past year. I'm only listing cover-to-cover reads, and inclusion does not necessarily imply endorsement.

 Books are listed alphabetically (by title) and unsorted (by genre).

1. A Death in Cornwall, Daniel Silva
2. After That Night, Karin Slaughter
3. Argylle, Elly Conway
4. Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge, Richard Ovenden
5. Crosshairs, James Patterson
6. Deal Breaker, Harlan Coben
7. Diplomatic Immunity, Grant Sutherland
8. End of Story, A.J. Finn
9. Escape, James Patterson and David Ellis
10. First Lie Wins, Ashley Elston
11. Holmes, Marple & Poe, James Patterson and Brian Sitts
12. Indemnity Only, Sara Paretsky
13. It Starts with Us, Colleen Hoover
14. Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
15. Missing Persons, James Patterson and Adam Hamdy
16. None of This Is True, Lisa Jewell
17. Our Little Secret, Lisa Jackson
18. Proof, Fern Michaels
19. Salt to the Sea, Ruta Sepetys
20. Sophia Princess Among Beasts, James Patterson and Emily Raymond
21. Split Second, David Baldacci
22. Sting, Sandra Brown
23. The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
24. The Boy, Tami Hoag
25. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Daniel James Brown
26. The Christmas Thief, Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
27. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Jonathan Freedland
28. The Faith of Elvis, Billy Stanley with Kent Sanders
29. The Final Judgment, Richard North Patterson
30. The Fury, Alex Michaelides
31. The Heir and the Spare, Emily Albright
32. The Inmate, Freida McFadden
33. The Jerusalem Scroll, Mike Evans and Robert Wise
34. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
35. The Last Summer, John Hough, Jr.
36. The Light in Hidden Places, Sharon Cameron
37. The Lightning Rod, Brad Meltzer
38. The Measure, Nikki Erlick
39. The Nest, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
40. The Paris Agent, Kelly Rimmer
41. The Perfect Son, Freida McFadden
42. The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult
43. The Teacher of Warsaw, Mario Escobar
44. The Teacher, Freida McFadden
45. The Third Victim, Lisa Gardner
46. The Wild Side, Fern Michaels
47. The Woman from Lydia: Emissaries, Book 1, Angela Elwell Hunt
48. The Women, Kristin Hannah
49. Think Twice: A Thriller, Harlan Coben
50. Tidings of Comfort and Joy, Davis Bunn
51. Too Much and Never Enough, Mary L. Trump
52. Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
53. West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge
54. When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection, Gabor Mate
55. Who’s Sorry Now, Jill Churchill
56. Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, Lundy Bancroft

 This lineup does not include any books I authored, edited, or produced. It omits the Bible, Bible studies, children's books I read (again and again), cookbooks, daily devotionals, magazines, newspapers, reference books (such as atlases, dictionaries, and encyclopedias), training or instructional manuals, and so on. It's simply a list of full-length, cover-to-cover reads (to-date) for the year.

 Book titles hyperlink to Amazon, when possible. (Disclaimer: I'm an Amazon Affiliate,

 

What are you reading in 2025?

 I’m always looking for recommendations of worthy reads to add to my TBR (to-be-read) list. Got any outstanding books to recommend? Please comment with the titles/authors. Thank you!

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