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Books I read in 2025

Sixty-nine, not bad! Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul Arrival/Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 🙌🏻 Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah 👍🏻 The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 🩵 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 👍🏻 Anne of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan The Stranger by Albert Camus The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov The Color Purple by Alice Walker Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Beloved by Toni Morrison 🙌🏻 The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Kiki’s Delivery Service, Eiko Kadono The God of Small Thing...

December 2025 Reads—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley And More

Let's go straight to the books: 1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 2. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama 3. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 4. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 5. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 6. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 7. Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy Brave New World by Aldous Huxley A dystopian novel where society trades freedom, individuality, and deep emotion for comfort, pleasure, and stability. I've often seen this book being compared to 1984 by George Orwell, and I plan to read it sometime. Finally read this month. For me, 1984 is >, but this book also raised some chilling questions and gave food for thought.  "I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."  Yeah, this. I don't believe in God, though. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama A gentle, interconne...