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Once again I tracked my reading on betterbydecember.com<\/a>. 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<\/a>, as Dogberry said in Much Ado About Nothing<\/em>, “Comparisons are odorous”. Regardless, I quite enjoyed reading various each of the books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\/6\/2025<\/td>The Goodbye Cat<\/td><\/tr>
1\/24\/2025<\/td>Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder<\/td><\/tr>
1\/31\/2025<\/td>Wind and Truth: Book Five of the Stormlight Archive (The Stormlight Archive, 5)<\/td><\/tr>
2\/6\/2025<\/td>Red Country<\/td><\/tr>
2\/12\/2025<\/td>The Human Division (Old Man’s War, 5)<\/td><\/tr>
2\/17\/2025<\/td>The End of All Things (Old Man’s War, 6)<\/td><\/tr>
2\/20\/2025<\/td>Bushido: Code of the Samurai: The Soul of Japan<\/td><\/tr>
2\/22\/2025<\/td>Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden’s Syndrome (The Lock In Series, 3)<\/td><\/tr>
2\/25\/2025<\/td>Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock In Series Book 1)<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1\/2025<\/td>Head On: A Novel of the Near Future (The Lock In Series, 2)<\/td><\/tr>
3\/5\/2025<\/td>Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency)<\/td><\/tr>
3\/9\/2025<\/td>Consuming Fire (The Interdependency)<\/td><\/tr>
3\/13\/2025<\/td>Last Emperox (The Interdependency)<\/td><\/tr>
3\/20\/2025<\/td>The Android’s Dream<\/td><\/tr>
3\/21\/2025<\/td>The President’s Brain Is Missing<\/td><\/tr>
3\/25\/2025<\/td>Fuzzy Nation<\/td><\/tr>
3\/28\/2025<\/td>Agent to the Stars<\/td><\/tr>
3\/30\/2025<\/td>The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien<\/td><\/tr>
4\/4\/2025<\/td>Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008<\/td><\/tr>
4\/13\/2025<\/td>The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel<\/td><\/tr>
4\/24\/2025<\/td>Dragonsteel Prime<\/td><\/tr>
4\/29\/2025<\/td>Half a King (Shattered Sea)<\/td><\/tr>
5\/5\/2025<\/td>Half the World<\/td><\/tr>
5\/15\/2025<\/td>The Door-to-Door Bookstore: A Novel<\/td><\/tr>
5\/26\/2025<\/td>A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, 1)<\/td><\/tr>
6\/4\/2025<\/td>The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, 2)<\/td><\/tr>
6\/10\/2025<\/td>Half a War<\/td><\/tr>
6\/18\/2025<\/td>The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, 3)<\/td><\/tr>
7\/19\/2025<\/td>A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos)<\/td><\/tr>
8\/3\/2025<\/td>Quantum Computing for Everyone<\/td><\/tr>
8\/8\/2025<\/td>The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, 1)<\/td><\/tr>
8\/16\/2025<\/td>The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, 2)<\/td><\/tr>
9\/2\/2025<\/td>The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3)<\/td><\/tr>
9\/6\/2025<\/td>Ultralight Backpackin’ Tips: 153 Amazing & Inexpensive Tips For Extremely Lightweight Camping<\/td><\/tr>
9\/20\/2025<\/td>Isles of the Emberdark: A Cosmere Novel (Secret Projects)<\/td><\/tr>
9\/25\/2025<\/td>Dragons of Autumn Twilight: The Dragonlance Chronicles<\/td><\/tr>
9\/28\/2025<\/td>Dragons of Winter Night: The Dragonlance Chronicles<\/td><\/tr>
10\/8\/2025<\/td>Dragons of Spring Dawning: The Dragonlance Chronicles<\/td><\/tr>
10\/13\/2025<\/td>Black Company (Chronicles of The Black Company, 1)<\/td><\/tr>
10\/18\/2025<\/td>Shadows Linger (Chronicle of the Black Company)<\/td><\/tr>
10\/23\/2025<\/td>The White Rose (Chronicles of The Black Company, 3)<\/td><\/tr>
10\/26\/2025<\/td>The Silver Spike: The Chronicles of the Black Company<\/td><\/tr>
10\/31\/2025<\/td>Shadow Games: The Fourth Chronicles of the Black Company: First Book of the South<\/td><\/tr>
11\/3\/2025<\/td>Dreams of Steel (The Fifth Chronicle of the Black Company)<\/td><\/tr>
11\/8\/2025<\/td>Bleak Seasons: The Sixth Chronicle of the Black Company (GLITTERING STONE\/GLEN COOK, BK 1)<\/td><\/tr>
11\/15\/2025<\/td>She Is The Darkness: Book Two of Glittering Stone: A Novel of the Black Company (The Chronicles of The Black Company 8)<\/td><\/tr>
11\/27\/2025<\/td>Water Sleeps: A Novel of the Black Company (The Chronicles of The Black Company Book 9)<\/td><\/tr>
12\/8\/2025<\/td>Soldiers Live (The Chronicles of The Black Company Book 10)<\/td><\/tr>
12\/21\/2025<\/td>Port of Shadows: A Novel of the Black Company<\/td><\/tr>
12\/23\/2025<\/td>Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret)<\/td><\/tr>
12\/26\/2025<\/td>The Late Monsieur Gallet (Inspector Maigret)<\/td><\/tr>
12\/27\/2025<\/td>Just Stab Me Now<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author(s) <\/strong>
<\/td>		Number of Books<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
John Scalzi<\/td>13<\/td><\/tr>
Glen Cook<\/td>11<\/td><\/tr>
Joe Abercrombie<\/td>7<\/td><\/tr>
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>
N. K. Jemisin<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>
Brandon Sanderson<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>
Georges Simenon<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “A Book per Week”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,12],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-betterbydecember","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}