Steph's 2025 Reading list - 75 books

Greetings book folks!

I ended 2024 and started 2025 off reading more voraciously than I have in awhile; as a Portlander (Oregon) I have fully leaned into cozy season, stacking my living room with books and tea/coffee and blankets! So this is a great way for me to keep myself accountable to read 75 books in 2025, which I think I am going to accomplish if I can keep this up.

Tidbits about me:

Indiana-born, now in Portland, OR (West coast is my best coast)
college librarian
runner, trail runner, future ultra runner, camper, hiker, snowshoer, mountain and nature lover
dog mom
current movie interest: Hitchcock and basically anything 70s - the weirder the better

Cheers!

New Year, new books!

2025 completed reads so far:

1. The Deep by Rivers Solomon
2. Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchinson
3. City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim

Welcome to LT and the 75ers, Steph! We have a few Portlanders here in the group, I'm sure they'll find you. 😀 In the meantime, if you have any questions about the group or the site, let me know. I'm happy to help if I can.

Have you run across touchstones yet? From the help pages, "Touchstones are works, authors, and series "touched on" by your message, and an easy way to link to them." A book touchstone is the title surrounded by a single set of square brackets, an author is the name surrounded by two sets of square brackets, and a series is three sets.

Two more books to add:

4. Not Even the Dead by Juan Gómez Bárcena
5. Antelope Woman by Louise Erdrich

Adding

6. Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

7. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
8. The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian
9. How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, Difficult Days by Kari Leibowitz

I read more books!

10. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
11. And a timely re-read: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
12. Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang

Slowed down a bit, but finished #13, Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
and #14, Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt.

15. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
16. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

17. Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi

18. Marx's Capital Illustrated by David Smith
19. Kindred by Octavia Butler
20. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

21. Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
22. The Changeling by Victor LaValle
23. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

24. Book of Night by Holly Black
25. Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon by Neal Jamison

26. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
27. Smothermoss by Alisa Alering
28. Bear by Julia Phillips
29. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
30. James by Percival Everett

For Spooky Season, #31 is The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

32. The City we Became by N.K. Jamison
33. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
34. The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister