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Taking a look at all that I consumed in 2025, this time including some music recommendations! We’re back for the continuing series of things I consumed. I did an excellent job of tracking in 2025, with the help of Things 3 and emojis. Traditionally I made a giant spreadsheet of all that I consumed but with the help of Chat GPT, it’s been easier to track via Things, sort via Sheets, and then clean up and analyze with Chat GPT. Books Overall I read thirty-six books this year, thirteen of which I gave a star to. That’s about a 35% hit rate, which actually is pretty great! For a deeper dive into my 2025 reading, I’ll send you over to the quarterly book reviews I’ve been doing, which detail exactly what I read. For 2026, I’m giving up Goodreads and moving over to Storygraph . I know, you’re thrilled by this news. Flummoxed? Either way, I’m over there now, thanks! Best Reads 2025 Babel, R.F. Kuang Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino Central Places, Delia Cai Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsk...

We wound up 2025 with a total of about thirty fiction books read, so let’s take a review of the last two months shall we? Books Read, Fiction Bring the House Down, Charlotte Runcie Central Places, Delia Cai ⭐️ Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin Notes on a Crocodile, Qiu Miaojin Strange Houses, Uketsu ⭐️ Books Read, Non-Fiction On Class: Field Notes from a Working Class, Deborah Landau Books Quit A Guardian and a Thief, Megha Majumdar The Berry Pickers, Amanda Peters The Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer Frankly in Love, David Yoon Ports of Call, Amin Maalouf The Vagrants, Yiyun Li Overall November and December were good reading months, as I cleaned up some books I had wanted to read and finally caught up on some stuff I’d been intrigued by for some long time. Let’s start with the hits, which were Central Places and Strange Houses. The latter is a unique mystery book that I’ve been pushing to everyone, as I love the concept of a book that is focused a...