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Shifting it up a bit this year. The books are in the order I read them; the rest are in alphabetical order. The Books Read list contains a whole lot of very short books; if you discount those, I finished 20 normal-length books this year.

Books Read in 2025:

1. Quackery by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
2. Journal by Joyce Atkinson and Kristine Atkinson
3. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
4. Breasts by Florence Williams
5. The Explainer by Slate Magazine
6. So You Wanna Run a Country? by Kevin Holohan
7. How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
8. Grunt by Mary Roach
9. Pinball Wizards by Adam Ruben
10. Manhunt by James L. Swanson
11. Bone Dance by Emma Bull
12. The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater by Mike Thomas
13. Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi
14. Creme de la Femme edited by Anne Safran Dalin
15. How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein
16. Brief Histories of Everyday Objects by Andy Warner
17. El Deafo by Cece Bell
18. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
19. Starter Villain by John Scalzi
20. The Gifts of Marriage by Helen Exley
21. First Comes Love by Emily Thornton Calvo
22. Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
23. From the Very Big Desk Of… by Charles Barsotti
24. Literary Starbucks by Jill Poskanzer
25. Fingerpori from Finland by Pertti Jarla
26. Heart and Brain by Nick Seluk
27. Gut Instincts by Nick Seluk
28. Body Language by Nick Seluk
29. The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat
30. Off the Road by Elisha Cooper
31. The History Of The World Through Twitter by Jon Holmes and Mitch Benn
32. Shrinklits by Maurice Sagoff
33. Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O’Connor
34. The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Audiobooks Listened to in 2025:

1. System Failure by Joe Zeija
2. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
3. Tricked by Kevin Hearne
4. What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
5. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
6. Trapped by Kevin Hearne
7. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
8. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
9. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
10. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
11. The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
12. The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
13. The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
14. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
15. This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
16. Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
17. Bourdain by Laurie Woolever
18. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
19. I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle
20. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
21. The Genius Under the Table by Eugene Yelchin
22. Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
23. The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
24. Go Ask Ali by Ali Wentworth
25. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
26. The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness by Paula Poundstone
27. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
28. Winter by Marissa Meyer
29. The Meaning of It All by Richard P. Feynman
30. The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
31. Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
32. How to Think by Alan Jacobs
33. The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
34. The World She Edited by Amy Reading
35. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
36. The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth
37. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

But wait, there’s more!

Video Games Played in 2025:

• Core Keeper
• Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
• Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
• Lego: The Hobbit
• Liminal Space
• Outer Worlds
• Return to Monkey Island
• Smite
• Smite 2
• Stardew Valley
• The Stanley Parable
• World of Warcraft

Movies Watched in 2025:

• Argylle
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Captain America: Brave New World
• Fantastic Four: First Steps
• Happy Gilmore
• Jurassic World
• Kraven the Hunter
• M3gan
• M3gan 2.0
• Pixels
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Superman (2025)
• The Beekeeper
• The Gorge
• The Minecraft Movie
• The Running Man (2025)
• Thunderbolts
• Trap
• Wake Up Dead Man

TV Shows Watched in 2025:

• DuckTales (2017)
• Game Changer
• Gastronauts
• Ghosts (US)
• Make Some Noise
• Murderbot
• Nyaight of the Living Cat
• Peacemaker
• Pluribus
• Resident Alien
• Saturday Night Live
• Schmigadoon
• Severance
• South Park
• Star Trek Lower Decks
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
• Ted Lasso
• What We Do in the Shadows

Honorable Mentions from YouTube*:

• Game Grumps
• Last Week Tonight
• Late Night with Seth Meyers
• Pitch Meeting
• Screen Junkies: Honest Trailers
• The Daily Show
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
• This Aged Great
• Your Daily Dose of Internet
• Ze Frank: True Facts

*I watch a lot of the videos from these channels but they don’t really count the same way as regular shows. The TV shows listed here are ones I only watch specific clips of, not whole episodes. For example, I watch Stephen Colbert’s monologues and Meanwhile and a couple other things, but rarely the interviews.

Looking at this list, even considering it’s over the course of an entire year, you’d think I never got up off my butt. And, well, you might have a point. Shut up.