My 2025 Reading List
In 2025 I read 31 books, including one re-read, 5 memoirs and 3 other non-fiction titles. Lots of good ones for the year but if I had to pick a single Book of the Year it would be The Last Unicorn (#12 on the list). The usual rambling impressions are below. 1. Three Wild Dogs (And The Truth) by Markus Zusak Anything Markus Zusak publishes is an automatic must-buy for me. This is his memoir of the three crazy dogs that his family adopted over the years. I almost want to say that it's a must-read for any rescue-pet owner, but of course it does involve inevitable pet death, and so is inescapably heart-breaking as well as laugh-out-loud funny. But absolutely brimming with love, and searingly beautiful, even (especially) when it makes you cry. "There are terrible and poetic things in our lives, and so often they're one and the same." 2. Juice by Tim Winton This book was pretty hardcore. It was a book full of a quiet rage. The climate-ravaged world of the future still hold...
