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. Discourses and Selected Writings - Epictetus
  4. Histories - Polybius
  5. Rubicon - Tom Holland
  6. Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
  7. Enemy of God - Bernard Cornwell
  8. Excalibur - Bernhard Cornwell
  9. Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
  10. Roman Lives - Plutarch
  11. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  12. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
  13. Murder Past Due - Miranda James
  14. Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
  15. I'm Afraid You Have Dragons - Peter S. Beagle
  16. Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  17. Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson
  18. Murder in an Irish Village - Carlene O'Connor
  19. History of Rome Books 1-5 - Livy
  20. The Odyssey - Homer - Translated by: Emily Wilson
  21. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
  22. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician - Anthony Everitt
  23. Republic - Plato
  24. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
  25. Babel: An Arcane History - R.F. Kuang
  26. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
  27. Selected Works (Penguin Edition) - Cicero
  28. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  29. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
  30. Technopoly - Niel Postman
  31. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  32. 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