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Reading Log for 2025 (That’s a Wrap!)

  1. James: A Novel by Percival Everett
  2. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
  3. The Half-Life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman
  4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky
  5. Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers by Deborah Tuerkheimer
  6. The Hike: A Novel by Drew Magary
  7. Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
  8. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
  9. Sold by Patricia McCormick
  10. This Book is Gay by June Dawson
  11. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2 by Matt Dinniman
  12. Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  13. Ask for Andrea by Noelle West Ihill
  14. Black Pill by Elle Reeve
  15. Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
  16. How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
  17. My Eyes are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann
  18. We Refuse by Kellie Carter Jackson
  19. Confessions of a Recovering Skinhead by Frank Meeink
  20. The Crumbling of a Nation by Ryan David Gainsberg
  21. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
  22. 19 Minutes Jodi Picoult
  23. Hidden History of American Oligarchy by Thom Hartmann
  24. The Most by Jessica Anthony
  25. Yours Cruely, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson
  26. The Unworthy: A Novel by Agustina Bazterrica
  27. Writing with AI by Sidney Dubrin
  28. Burn Book by Kara Swisher
  29. Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
  30. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
  31. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
  32. Yr Dead by Sam Sax
  33. White Fear by Roland S. Morton
  34. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
  35. Never Flinch by Stephen King
  36. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
  37. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
  38. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  39. Half Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn’t Say by Adam Hamilton
  40. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity by Sander van der Linden
  41. A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney
  42. Coming Home by Britney Griner
  43. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (5X Total!)
  44. Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willington
  45. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
  46. The Tell by Amy Griffin
  47. Address Unknown: A Novel by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
  48. Verity by Colleen Hoover
  49. Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds by John Fugelsang
  50. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
  51. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  52. Don’t Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition) Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen
  53. Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy by Randi Weingarten
  54. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
  55. Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children by Noliwe Rooks
  56. Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me About Recovery, Purpose, and Hope by Fred Guttenberg
  57. Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away by Coltan Scrivner PhD
  58. A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappe
  59. Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
  60. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West
  61. Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigations of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
  62. The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
  63. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
  64. Monumental: It Was Never About a Statue by Dr. Wes Bellamy
  65. ‘Night Mother by Marsha Norman (Second Time Reading)
  66. There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell
  67. The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann
  68. Dear Black Girls by A’ja Wilson
  69. Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy Politics and Culture by Jonathan Rauch
  70. King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby
  71. Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie

Reading Log for 2023 (FINALLY)

  1. How to Fight a Hydra by Josh Kaufman
  2. The Fall by Albert Camus
  3. Comedy Sex God by Pete Homes
  4. The Real Frank Zappa by Frank Zappa
  5. How am I Doing? by Dr. Corey Yeager
  6. A Lot of People are Saying by Nancy L. Rosenblum
  7. Spoiled Brats by Simon Rich
  8. Speech Police by David Kaye
  9. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Dr. Susan Jeffers
  10. How to American by Jimmy Yang
  11. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz Hetling
  12. Flip It Like This by David Howard
  13. Looking for Alaska by David Green
  14. Things Fall Apart by Jon Ronson
  15. It’s Gotten Worse Since the Last Time We Spoke by Eric LaRocca
  16. Nothing Left but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khew
  17. Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazierrica
  18. What Great Teachers Do Differently by Todd Whitaker
  19. How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
  20. Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
  21. It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
  22. Finders Keepers by Stephen King
  23. Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets by Andy Stanley
  24. The Allegory of the Cave by Plato
  25. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  26. Hits and Misses by Simon Rich
  27. Debutante by Jon Ronson
  28. The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Joku
  29. Ivy League Stripper by Heidi Mattson
  30. Make Your Bed by William H. McReardon
  31. Do You Talk Funny? by David Nihill
  32. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  33. Summer of ’99 by J.L. Hyde
  34. Transgender History by Susan Stryker
  35. Breaking Through Gridlock by Gabriel Grant
  36. Hate in the Homeland by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
  37. Not Funny by Jenna Friedman
  38. It Was All a Lie by Sturat Stevens
  39. Redefining Realness by Janet Mack
  40. Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowie
  41. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
  42. Extremism by J. M. Berger
  43. Period, End of Sentence by Anita Dianant
  44. Some New Kind Of Kick by “Kid” Congo Powers
  45. Homegrown by Jeffry Toobin
  46. High Conflict by Amanda Ripley
  47. Meme Wars by Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, etc.
  48. Freedom’s Dominion by Jefferson Cowie
  49. I Never Thought of It That Way by Monica Guzman
  50. Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
  51. Gunfight: A History of the Second Amendment by Adam Winkler
  52. Cultish by Amanda Montell
  53. Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew
  54. Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
  55. The Persuaders by Amanda Gridharadas
  56. The Soul of the First Amendment by Luke Moyelson
  57. The Storm is Here by Luke Moyelson
  58. The Streets of Baltimore by Brandon Novak
  59. Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
  60. Tribe by Sebastian Junger
  61. End of Watch by Stephen King
  62. The Outsider by Stephen King
  63. Holly by Spehen King
  64. Refuse to be Done by Matt Bell
  65. Breaking Night by Liz Murray
  66. Leslie Fucking Jones by Leslie Jones
  67. Best of Luck by Jason Mott
  68. Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix
  69. In Bloom by Paul Tremblay
  70. Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
  71. The Pram by Joe Hill
  72. The Politics of Resentment by Kathy Cramer
  73. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  74. No Common Ground by Karen L. Cox
  75. The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff
  76. The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
  77. The Worry Cure by Robert L. Lealy
  78. Network of Lies by Brian Stetler
  79. Wrong by Dannagei Goldthwaite Young
  80. Southern Horrors & The Red Record by Ida B. Wells
  81. The Flag and The Cross by Samuel Perry
  82. Taking America Back for God by Andrew Whitehead
  83. American Rust by Philip Meyer
  84. Misbelief by Dan Ariely
  85. How to Host a Viking Funeral by Kyle Scheele