Seidchen's 2025 Books

The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom by Willa Blythe Baker
Nonfiction: mindfulness, embodied practice, Tibetan Buddhism
21st century, American
Public library
Finished January 20, 2025

In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman
Nonfiction, time, creativity, contemplative
21st century, American
Public library
Finished January 25, 2025

What’s Wrong With Mindfulness (and What Isn’t): Zen Perspectives, edited by Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum and Barry Magid
Nonfiction: essays, Buddhism, Zen, mindfulness
21st century, American
Public library
Finished January 28, 2025

The BFG by Roald Dahl
Fiction: children’s, giants
20th century, British
Our library
Finished January 28, 2025 (read with IKK)

What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
Nonfiction: design, disability
21st century, American
Library (audiobook)
Finished January 31, 2025

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Fiction: novel, Zen, hearing voices
21st century, American
Our library
Finished February 8, 2005

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill
Nonfiction: psychology, philosophy, antiracism, trauma, social movements, personal growth
21st century, American
Our library (but listened as audiobook)
Finished February 26, 2025

The Flowing Bridge: Guidance on Beginning Zen Koans by Elaine MacInnes
Nonfiction: Zen, koans
21st century, Canadian
Our library
Finished February 2025

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Nonfiction: fungus, naturalism, philosophy, ecosystems, science
21st century, British
Our library
Finished March 14, 2025

A Fire Runs Through All Things: Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis
Nonfiction: Buddhism, Zen, ecology
21st century, Australian
Our library
Finished March 30, 2025

Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy
Nonfiction: ecology, biodiversity, gardening
21st century, American
Library audiobook
Finished April 1, 2025

Eucharist by Dave O'Neal
Nonfiction: poetry
21st century, American
Our library
Finished April 21, 2025

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Fiction: novel
21st century, American
School library
Finished April 23, 2025

Normal People by Sally Rooney
Fiction: novel
21st century, Irish
Our library
Finished April 25, 2025

Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Fiction: novel, international space station
21st century, British
Library: audiobook
Finished May 1, 2025

The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping by Samantha Harvey
Nonfiction: memoir
21st century, British
Our library
Finished May 3, 2025

Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
Nonfiction: memoir, hares, home ecology
21st century, British
Library: audiobook
Finished May 13, 2025

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Fiction: children's
21st century, American
Our library
Finished May 18, 2025 (read with IKK)

God, Human, Animal, Machine Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn
Nonfiction: artificial intelligence, philosophy, sociology, religion
21st century, American
Library: audiobook
Finished June 2025

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Fiction: novella
20th century, American
Our library
Finished June 23, 2025

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
Nonfiction: memoir, depression, suicide
20th century, American
Our library
Finished June 30, 2025

The Intimate Way of Zen: Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual Journey by James Ishmael Ford
Nonfiction: Zen
21st century, American
Our library
Finished July 2, 2025

The Krishnamurti Reader by J. Keishnamurti
Nonfiction: philosophy, religion
20th century, Indian
Borrowed (Airbnb)
Finished July 16, 2025

Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyer
Nonfiction: memoir, spirituality, cloister, New Camoldoli Hermitage, Big Sur
21st century, American, Indian
Public library
Finished July 22, 2025

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
Nonfiction: memoir, history, slavery, migration, place
21st century, American
Public library
Finished July 28, 2025

Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terrence Real
Nonfiction: relationships, intimacy, therapy, psychology, spirituality
21st century, American
Public library
Finished August 24, 2025

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
Fiction: children's, adventure, prodigies
21st century, American
Our library
Finished August 2025 (read with IKK)

We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption by Kaira Jewel Lingo
Nonfiction: Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, spirituality, Zen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village
21st century, American
Public library
Finished September 11, 2025

Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
Fiction: children's, Moomins, family, adventure
20th century, Finnish
Our library
Finished in September 2025 (read with IKK)

Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World by Pema Chödrön
Nonfiction: Buddhism, Theravada, tonglen, meditation
21st century, American
Public library
Finished in October 2025

Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening, anthology
Nonfiction: yoga, kundalini
20th century, 21st century, global
Public library
Finished October 11, 2025

Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Stephanie M. Kriesberg
Nonfiction: trauma, emotional abuse, narcissism, psychology, self-help
21st century, American
Library: audiobook
Finished November 19, 2025

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
Nonfiction: memoir, travelogue, disaster, ecology, climate change, parenting, sociology
21st century, Irish
Borrowed (Topi)
Finished November 29, 2025

It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasala
Nonfiction: psychology, trauma, narcissistic family system
21st century, American
Public library
Finished December 23, 2025

Fierce Vulnerability: Direct Action that Heals and Transforms by Kazu Haga
Nonfiction: organizing from an orientation toward healing
21st century, American
Public library
Finished December 28, 2025