Teymaneeya’s 75 book challenge for 2025

Another year another challenge. Thank you for the inspiration to keep reading! Enjoy

Welcome back!

Hope you have a great year of reading!

Welcome back

1. The glass castle by Jeanette Walls

2. the invisible hour by Alice Hoffman

3. the measure of a man: a spiritual autobiography by Sidney Poitier

4. I am Brian wilson by Brian Wilson

5. the real frank zappa by Frank Zappa

6. Pet by Catherine Chidgey

7. becoming by michelle obama

8. the other einstein by Marie Benedict

9. troublemaker: surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini

10. Prior convictions: and other life sentences by Richard Pryor

11. we could be so good by Cat Sebastian

12. twelve stories: a psychiatrist's true stories of mental illness and addiction (and other human predispositions) by Daniel Mierlak

13. Robin by Dave Itzkoff

13. a very private school: a memoir by Charles Spencer

14. carrie Soto is back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

15. oath and honor by Liz Cheney

16. 10/7: 100 human stories by Lee Yaron

17. deal: my three decades of drumming, dreams, and by Bill Kreutzman

18. sociopath: a memoir by Patrick Gagne

19. Moloka’i by Alan Brennert

20. Subway girls by Susie Orman Schnall

21. all the little bird hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

22. lovely one: a memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

23. the vegetarian by Han Kang

24. the year of magical thinking by Joan Didion

25. Sandwich: a novel by Catherine Newman

26. knife: meditations after an attempted murder by Salman Rushdie

27. Grief is for people by Sloane Crosley

28. while you were out: an intimate family portrait of mental illness in an era of silence by Meg Kissinger

29. palisades park by Alan Brennert

30. trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the pacific crest trail by Andrea Lankford

31. off the books: a novel by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

32. the storyteller: tales of life and music by Dave Grohl

33. devil is fine: a novel by John Vercher

34. patriot: a memoir by Alexei Navalny

35. The complete fairy tales of the brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm

36. Fi: a memoir of my son by Alexandra Fuller

37. did I ever tell you? : a memoir by Genevieve Kingston

38. Blood test: a comedy by Charles Baxter

39.being henry by Henry Winkler

40. dirty daddy by Bob Saget

41. songs for the broken hearted by Ayelet Tsabari

42. the girl with the lower back tattoo by Amy Schumer

43. silent spring by Rachel Carson

44. a reason to see you again by Jami Attenberg

45. one of our kind by Nicola Yoon

46. still foolin em by Billy Crystal

47. How to sleep at night by Elizabeth Harris

48. acid for the children by Flea

49. 90s bitch by Allison Yarrow

50. apex hides the hurt by Colson Whitehead

51. world within a song by Jeff Tweedy

52. deacon king kong by James McBride

53. Hell’s angels by Hunter S. Thompson

54. entitlement by Rumaan Alam

55. tell me everything: a memoir by Minka Kelly

56. this American ex-wife by Lyz Lenz

57. penitence: a novel by Kristin Koval

58. exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon

59. waiting for the long night moon by Amanda Peters

60. heartbreaker by Mike Campbell

61. tibetan peach pie by Tom Robbins

62. the wedding people by Alison Espach

63. angelina: an unauthorized biography by Andrew Morton

64. the rulebreaker: the life and times of Barbara walters by susan page

65. men have called her crazy by Anna Marie Tendler

66. the strange case of Jane o. by Karen Thompson Walker

67. the house of my mother by Shari Franke

68. dare I say it by Naomi Watts

69. Soledad brother by George Jackson

70. I’ll come to you: a novel by Rebecca Kauffman

71. becoming eve: my journey from ultra-orthodox rabbi to transgender woman by Abby Stein

72. theft, a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah

73. rabbit moon: a novel by Jennifer Haigh

74. eddie Winston is looking for love by Marianne Cronin

75. more or less maddy by Lisa Genova

76. my side Of the river: a memoir by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

Congrats on slipping past 75!

77. and then she fell: a novel by Alicia Elliott

>83 drneutron: thanks!

78. poached: inside the dark world of wildlife trafficking by Rachel Love Nuwer

79. the madman’s hotel by Niall Breslin

80. misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga

81. I escaped from auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba

82. alive and well enough continues by Jeff Daniels

83. first lie wins by Ashley Elston

84. the elephant whisperer by Lawrence Anthony

85. you never know: a memoir by Tom Selleck

86. the small and the mighty by Sharon McMahon

87. the dream hotel by Laila Lalami

Very decent accumulation of reading this year. What have been your best reads so far?

>96 PaulCranswick: thanks. Hard to say which are “best” but really been enjoying diving into nonfiction audiobooks. Mike Campbell, Jane Fonda, Pacino, and some nature / science books have been some of the most interesting ones.

88. between two trailers: a memoir by J. Dana Trent

89.save me stranger by Erika Krouse

90. up from slavery by Booker T. Washington

91. the whiskey tender by Deborah Taffa

92. the heart of winter: a novel by Jonathan Evison

93. Rodham: a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld

94. rental house by Weike Wang

95. what I ate in one year by Stanley Tucci

96. follow me to Africa by Penny Haw

97. gold dust woman by Stephen Davis

98. doors of perception by Aldous Huxley

99. trial by ambush: murder, injustice and the truth about the case of Barbara Graham by Marcia Clark

100. one good thing by Alexandra Potter

101. Bridge of sighs by Richard Russo

102. Havoc: a novel by Christopher Bollen

103. heartwood: a novel by Amity Gaige

104. The 10: a memoir of family and the open road by E. A. Hanks

105. My friends: a novel by Frederik Backman

106. hostage by Eli Sharabi

107. runaway train: or, the story of my life so far by Eric Roberts

108. the backyard bird chronicles by Amy Tan

109. good morning monster by Catherine Gildiner

110. we were the mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

111. the message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

112. Nobody’s girl: a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice by Virginia Roberts giuffre

113. wishful drinking by Carrie Fisher

114. Vagabond: a memoir by tim curry

115. then again by Diane Keaton

116. the bright years by Sarah Damoff

117. memorial days: a memoir by Geraldine Brooks

118. way of the peaceful warrior: a book that changes lives by Dan Millman

119. pan: a novel by Michael Clune

120. we could be rats by Emily Austin

121. Taste: my life through food by Stanley Tucci

122. this time together: laughter and reflection by Carol Burnett

123. the unexpected journey: finding strength hope and yourself on the caregiving path by Emma Heming-Willis

124. my beloved monster: masha the rescue cat who rescued me by Caleb Carr

125. the imagined life: a novel by Andrew Porter

126. Paris: the memoir by Paris Hilton

127. who could ever love you by Mary L. Trump