2025 Books Sorted into Categories

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📚 Your 2025 Books Sorted Into Categories

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I. Literary Fiction

• Kairos — Jenny Erpenbeck

• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Café With No Name — Robert Seethaler

• Rules of Civility — Amor Towles

• Thérèse Raquin — Émile Zola

• Audition — Katie Kitamura

• Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan

• Orbital — Samantha Harvey

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue — V.E. Schwab

• The Nix — Nathan Hill

• My Friends — Fredrik Backman

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II. Genre Fiction

Horror / Dark Fiction

• The Only Good Indians — Stephen Graham Jones

• I Was a Teenage Slasher — Stephen Graham Jones

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones

• Survivor Song — Paul Tremblay

• Prophet Song — Paul Lynch (arguably political dystopia)

Mystery / Crime / Thriller

• City Primeval — Elmore Leonard

• Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz #5) — Anthony Horowitz

• In the Woods — Tana French

• The Searcher — Tana French

• Fever Beach — Carl Hiaasen

• In Too Deep (Jack Reacher #29) — Lee Child

• American Dirt — Jeanine Cummins

• The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon #6) — Dan Brown

Science Fiction

• All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) — Martha Wells

• Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir

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III. Classics

• David Copperfield — Charles Dickens

• Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky

• The Crucible — Arthur Miller

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IV. Poetry & Books About Poetry

Poetry

• Felicity — Mary Oliver

• The Best American Poetry 2018 — Dana Gioia (ed.)

• The Best American Poetry 2024 — David Lehman (ed.)

Books About Poetry / Poetics

• Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World — Jane Hirshfield

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V. Essay Collections / Literary Nonfiction

• Upstream — Mary Oliver

• The Anthropocene Reviewed — John Green

• The Gastronomical Me — M.F.K. Fisher

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VI. Nature, Environment & Deep Ecology

• Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Gathering Moss — Robin Wall Kimmerer

• The Dream of the Earth — Thomas Berry

• The Light Eaters — Zoë Schlanger

• The Salt Stones — Helen Whybrow

• Is a River Alive? — Robert Macfarlane

• The Lost Words — Robert Macfarlane

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VII. Philosophy, Mindfulness, Psychology

• On Becoming a Person — Carl R. Rogers

• Standing at the Edge — Joan Halifax

• Four Thousand Weeks — Oliver Burkeman

• In Praise of Slowness — Carl Honoré

• Saving Time — Jenny Odell

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VIII. History & Politics

• The Passage of Power (LBJ #4) — Robert A. Caro

• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — David Grann

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IX. Music, Art, & Culture

• But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz — Geoff Dyer

• How Music Works — David Byrne

• John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs — Ian Leslie

• Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus — Fiona MacCarthy

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X. Science, Technology & Future Studies

• Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future — Dan Wang

• When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut

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XI. Food, Craft, & Making

• The Zero-Waste Chef — Anne-Marie Bonneau

• Ingrained: An Uplifting Memoir About Woodworking — Callum Robinson

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XII. Reading, Writing & Book Culture

• The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper — Roland Allen

• Index: A History of the — Dennis Duncan

• The Instructional Playbook — Jim Knight (professional/education)

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XIII. Memoir

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Dave Eggers

• Life Itself — Roger Ebert

• Arbitrary Stupid Goal — Tamara Shopsin

XIV. Young Adult

• Patron Saints of Nothing — Randy Ribay

• The First State of Being — Erin Entrada Kelly