Print and ebooks I read in 2025. Favorites are starred.
- The Kamogawa Food Detectives: Book 1, Hisashi Kashiwai
- Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker
- Gilgamesh, Emily Wilson*
- Persians: The Age of Great Kings, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Red Land, Black Land, Barbara Mertz
- The Restaurant of Lost Recipes: Kamogawa Food Detectives: Book 2, Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood
- The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard
- The Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
- First Steps, Jeremy DeSilva
- The Illiad, Homer/Emily Wilson
- The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell*
- Becoming Earth, Farris Jabr
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
- Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams
- Venomous, Christie Wilcox
- Queens of the Crusades: England’s Medieval Queens, Allison Weir
- The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That, Al Murray
- Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires, David Chaffetz
- Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, Laura Spinney
- City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi, William Dalrymple
- Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie*
- The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
- River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road, Cat Jarman
- Ninshubar, Emily H. Wilson*
- A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo*
- Nine Lives, William Dalrymple
- Japan Story, Christopher Harding
- Victory City, Salman Rushdie
- Menu of Happiness (A Kamogawa Food Detectives Novel Book 3), Hisashi Kashiwai
- Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, Eliot Stein*
- In Xanadu: A Quest, William Dalrymple
- The Eleventh Hour, Salman Rushdie
- Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell*