{"id":9231,"date":"2025-05-19T21:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T02:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?page_id=9231"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:40:45","slug":"what-chloes-reading-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?page_id=9231","title":{"rendered":"What Chloe’s Reading – 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Print and ebooks I read in 2025. Favorites are starred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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    View lists for other years here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Print and ebooks I read in 2025. Favorites are starred. View lists for other years here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9231"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9375,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9231\/revisions\/9375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}