Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The Books of 2025

In Reading Order:
  1. The Storm Before the Storm: The beginning of the End of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
  2. The Navigator's Children - Tad Williams
  3. Metamorphosis - Ovid
  4. Discourses and Selected Writings - Epictetus
  5. Histories - Polybius
  6. Rubicon - Tom Holland
  7. Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
  8. Enemy of God - Bernard Cornwell
  9. Excalibur - Bernhard Cornwell
  10. Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
  11. Roman Lives - Plutarch
  12. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  13. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
  14. Murder Past Due - Miranda James
  15. Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
  16. I'm Afraid You Have Dragons - Peter S. Beagle
  17. Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  18. Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson
  19. Murder in an Irish Village - Carlene O'Connor
  20. History of Rome Books 1-5 - Livy
  21. The Odyssey - Homer - Translated by: Emily Wilson
  22. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
  23. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician - Anthony Everitt
  24. Republic - Plato
  25. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
  26. Babel: An Arcane History - R.F. Kuang
  27. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
  28. Selected Works (Penguin Edition) - Cicero
  29. Politics - Aristotle
  30. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  31. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
  32. Technopoly - Niel Postman
  33. The Wander's Havamal - Jackson Crawford
  34. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  35. World of Warcraft-Arthas: The Rise of the Lich King - Christie Golden
Misc Poetry Books:
Rafts - Ted Kooser
Dream Work - Mary Oliver
Why I Wake up Early - Mary Oliver
Experiments in the Fading Light - Steven Peck
The Wasteland and Other Poems - T.S. Elliot