Once again I tracked my reading on betterbydecember.com. I completed 52 books in 2025 (see table below for the titles the dates I finished reading each book) which works out to a book per week. While not as many as in 2024, as Dogberry said in Much Ado About Nothing, “Comparisons are odorous”. Regardless, I quite enjoyed reading various each of the books.
| 1/6/2025 | The Goodbye Cat |
| 1/24/2025 | Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder |
| 1/31/2025 | Wind and Truth: Book Five of the Stormlight Archive (The Stormlight Archive, 5) |
| 2/6/2025 | Red Country |
| 2/12/2025 | The Human Division (Old Man’s War, 5) |
| 2/17/2025 | The End of All Things (Old Man’s War, 6) |
| 2/20/2025 | Bushido: Code of the Samurai: The Soul of Japan |
| 2/22/2025 | Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden’s Syndrome (The Lock In Series, 3) |
| 2/25/2025 | Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock In Series Book 1) |
| 3/1/2025 | Head On: A Novel of the Near Future (The Lock In Series, 2) |
| 3/5/2025 | Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency) |
| 3/9/2025 | Consuming Fire (The Interdependency) |
| 3/13/2025 | Last Emperox (The Interdependency) |
| 3/20/2025 | The Android’s Dream |
| 3/21/2025 | The President’s Brain Is Missing |
| 3/25/2025 | Fuzzy Nation |
| 3/28/2025 | Agent to the Stars |
| 3/30/2025 | The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 4/4/2025 | Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 |
| 4/13/2025 | The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel |
| 4/24/2025 | Dragonsteel Prime |
| 4/29/2025 | Half a King (Shattered Sea) |
| 5/5/2025 | Half the World |
| 5/15/2025 | The Door-to-Door Bookstore: A Novel |
| 5/26/2025 | A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, 1) |
| 6/4/2025 | The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, 2) |
| 6/10/2025 | Half a War |
| 6/18/2025 | The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, 3) |
| 7/19/2025 | A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos) |
| 8/3/2025 | Quantum Computing for Everyone |
| 8/8/2025 | The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, 1) |
| 8/16/2025 | The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, 2) |
| 9/2/2025 | The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3) |
| 9/6/2025 | Ultralight Backpackin’ Tips: 153 Amazing & Inexpensive Tips For Extremely Lightweight Camping |
| 9/20/2025 | Isles of the Emberdark: A Cosmere Novel (Secret Projects) |
| 9/25/2025 | Dragons of Autumn Twilight: The Dragonlance Chronicles |
| 9/28/2025 | Dragons of Winter Night: The Dragonlance Chronicles |
| 10/8/2025 | Dragons of Spring Dawning: The Dragonlance Chronicles |
| 10/13/2025 | Black Company (Chronicles of The Black Company, 1) |
| 10/18/2025 | Shadows Linger (Chronicle of the Black Company) |
| 10/23/2025 | The White Rose (Chronicles of The Black Company, 3) |
| 10/26/2025 | The Silver Spike: The Chronicles of the Black Company |
| 10/31/2025 | Shadow Games: The Fourth Chronicles of the Black Company: First Book of the South |
| 11/3/2025 | Dreams of Steel (The Fifth Chronicle of the Black Company) |
| 11/8/2025 | Bleak Seasons: The Sixth Chronicle of the Black Company (GLITTERING STONE/GLEN COOK, BK 1) |
| 11/15/2025 | She Is The Darkness: Book Two of Glittering Stone: A Novel of the Black Company (The Chronicles of The Black Company 8) |
| 11/27/2025 | Water Sleeps: A Novel of the Black Company (The Chronicles of The Black Company Book 9) |
| 12/8/2025 | Soldiers Live (The Chronicles of The Black Company Book 10) |
| 12/21/2025 | Port of Shadows: A Novel of the Black Company |
| 12/23/2025 | Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret) |
| 12/26/2025 | The Late Monsieur Gallet (Inspector Maigret) |
| 12/27/2025 | Just Stab Me Now |
As is my want, I like to consume in bulk read multiple books by the same author (often, but not always in a series). There were only ten books that I read in 2025 where I didn’t read another book by the same author. The table below shows a summary of the “multiple book” authors and the number of their books which I read. While Georges Simenon is at the bottom with only two books, expect to see over a dozen of his Inspector Maigret books on my 2026 list.
| Author(s) | Number of Books |
| John Scalzi | 13 |
| Glen Cook | 11 |
| Joe Abercrombie | 7 |
| Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman | 3 |
| N. K. Jemisin | 3 |
| Brandon Sanderson | 3 |
| Georges Simenon | 2 |
Considering all the other things I have going on in life, I think averaging a book per week is pretty good and a cadence I hope to continue. 2026 is already off to a fantastic start in terms of reading and I hope to at least match the book per week again.