1JBD1
My 2025 list
Happy New Year, all!
January
1. The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins
2. Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast by Thomas M. Wickman
3. So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan
4. The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching
5. New Worlds in Old Books by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
6. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway
7. In at the Death by Francis Duncan
8. Behold a Fair Woman by Francis Duncan
9. Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien
10. Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman
11. The Chianti Flask by Marie Belloc Lowndes
12. The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne by Chris Sweeney
13. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin
14. Diary Of A Bookseller by Sean Bythell
15. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey
16. Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace by Leonard C. Lewin
17. American Book Design and William Morris by Susan Otis Thompson
18. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu
19. The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology by Sarah Kate Gillespie
20. Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings by Janelle Rebel
21. Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars by Paul Stirton
22. The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
23. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield
24. The Widow of Bath by Margot Bennett
25. The Best American Book of the 20th Century by Société Réaliste
26. Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
February
27. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914 by Marcella D. Genz
28. The Library: A Fragile History by Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree
29. The Idea of North by Peter Davidson
30. The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade by Gary Goodman
31. Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt by Todd Harra and Kenneth McKenzie
32. Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
33. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries; edited by Martin Edwards
34. On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren by Lisa Jardine
35. V as In Victim by Lawrence Treat
36. Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
37. Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library by Wayne A. Wiegand
38. Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
39. Minding My Own Business: An Autobiography by Percy Muir
40. Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries; edited by Martin Edwards
41. Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh
42. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick
43. Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain by Elizabeth Yale
44. The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith
45. Safeguarding History: Trailblazing Adventures Inside the Worlds of Collecting and Forging History by Kenneth W. Rendell
46. Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres by Rachael Scarborough King
47. A Passion for Books by Lawrence Clark Powell
48. Booked By Fate: A Life of Dealing in the Exotic World of Rare Books by Phillip J. Pirages
March
49. The Epochs of Nature by Georges-Louis Leclerc, le Comte de Buffon
50. Books Have Their Fates by Madeleine B. Stern and Leona Rostenberg
51. Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
52. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by Christopher de Hamel
53. Bluecrowne by Kate Milford
54. Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy; edited by Erica Ciallela and Philip S. Palmer
55. JSTOR: A History by Roger C. Schonfeld
56. The Venetian Qur'an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam by Pier Mattia Tommasino
57. Antiquarian Bookselling in the United States: A History from the Origins to the 1940s by Madeleine B. Stern
58. Bird Etchings: The Illustrators and Their Books, 1655-1855 by Christine E. Jackson
59. Secrets of the Friendly Woods by Rex Brasher
60. The Book in History, The Book as History; edited by Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser
61. Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden
62. The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
63. Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
64. A Literate South: Reading before Emancipation by Beth Barton Schweiger
65. The Thief Knot by Kate Milford
66. Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Richard Wendorf
67. The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua
68. Murder by the Book; edited by Martin Edwards
69. Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture by Jeffrey M. Makala
70. Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books by Reid Byers
71. Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books by Eric Marshall White
72. Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, its Enduring Impact, and What it Reveals About America Today by Phil Tinline
73. Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century by Christina Lupton
74. An Inky Business: A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to the American Civil War by Matthew J. Shaw
75. The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
76. Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
77. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
78. Dealing in Deceit: Edwin Pearson of the 'Bewick Repository' Bookshop, 1838-1901 by Nigel Tattersfield
79. Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
80. Bird Illustrators: Some Artists in Early Lithography by Christine E. Jackson
81. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell
April
82. News and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac's "Gazette de Leyde" by Jeremy D. Popkin
83. Impact of Evidence: A Welsh Borders Mystery by Carol Carnac
84. The Lives of Moths: A Natural History of Our Planet's Moth Life by Andrei Sourakov and Rachel Warren Chadd
85. From Revolution to Revolution: Perspectives on Publishing & Bookselling, 1501-2001 by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
86. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
87. The Forger's Requiem by Bradford Morrow
88. Death on a Quiet Day by Michael Innes
89. The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic by Ryan L. Cole
90. A Private View by Michael Innes
91. A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake by Christian J. Koot
92. Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston
93. Writing in Public: Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Trevor Ross
94. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861 by Carl Ostrowski
95. The Eight of Swords by John Dickson Carr
96. The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley
97. The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr
May
98. Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
99. The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language by Peter Martin
100. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
101. North Woods by Daniel Mason
102. From Russia With Doubt: The Quest to Authenticate 181 Would-Be Masterpieces of the Russian Avant-Garde by Adam Lerner
103. The Theft of the Iron Dogs: A Lancashire Mystery by E. C. R. Lorac
104. The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
105. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
106. Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
107. Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe by Marisa Anne Bass et al.
108. Returning Light: Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael by Robert L. Harris
109. A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology After Audubon by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
110. The Mystery of the Crooked Man by Tom Spencer
111. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
112. But That's A Detail: Collected stories of A. J. Alan by A. J. Alan
113. Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Seasonal Mysteries; edited by Martin Edwards
114. Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America by Tara A. Bynum
115. The Author's Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White
June
116. English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 by Kathryn James
117. The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections by A. Edward Newton
118. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
119. The Shadows of London by Andrew Taylor
Happy New Year, all!
January
1. The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins
2. Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast by Thomas M. Wickman
3. So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan
4. The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching
5. New Worlds in Old Books by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
6. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway
7. In at the Death by Francis Duncan
8. Behold a Fair Woman by Francis Duncan
9. Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien
10. Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman
11. The Chianti Flask by Marie Belloc Lowndes
12. The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne by Chris Sweeney
13. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin
14. Diary Of A Bookseller by Sean Bythell
15. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey
16. Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace by Leonard C. Lewin
17. American Book Design and William Morris by Susan Otis Thompson
18. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu
19. The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology by Sarah Kate Gillespie
20. Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings by Janelle Rebel
21. Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars by Paul Stirton
22. The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
23. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield
24. The Widow of Bath by Margot Bennett
25. The Best American Book of the 20th Century by Société Réaliste
26. Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
February
27. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914 by Marcella D. Genz
28. The Library: A Fragile History by Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree
29. The Idea of North by Peter Davidson
30. The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade by Gary Goodman
31. Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt by Todd Harra and Kenneth McKenzie
32. Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
33. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries; edited by Martin Edwards
34. On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren by Lisa Jardine
35. V as In Victim by Lawrence Treat
36. Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
37. Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library by Wayne A. Wiegand
38. Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
39. Minding My Own Business: An Autobiography by Percy Muir
40. Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries; edited by Martin Edwards
41. Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh
42. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick
43. Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain by Elizabeth Yale
44. The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith
45. Safeguarding History: Trailblazing Adventures Inside the Worlds of Collecting and Forging History by Kenneth W. Rendell
46. Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres by Rachael Scarborough King
47. A Passion for Books by Lawrence Clark Powell
48. Booked By Fate: A Life of Dealing in the Exotic World of Rare Books by Phillip J. Pirages
March
49. The Epochs of Nature by Georges-Louis Leclerc, le Comte de Buffon
50. Books Have Their Fates by Madeleine B. Stern and Leona Rostenberg
51. Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
52. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by Christopher de Hamel
53. Bluecrowne by Kate Milford
54. Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy; edited by Erica Ciallela and Philip S. Palmer
55. JSTOR: A History by Roger C. Schonfeld
56. The Venetian Qur'an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam by Pier Mattia Tommasino
57. Antiquarian Bookselling in the United States: A History from the Origins to the 1940s by Madeleine B. Stern
58. Bird Etchings: The Illustrators and Their Books, 1655-1855 by Christine E. Jackson
59. Secrets of the Friendly Woods by Rex Brasher
60. The Book in History, The Book as History; edited by Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser
61. Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden
62. The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
63. Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
64. A Literate South: Reading before Emancipation by Beth Barton Schweiger
65. The Thief Knot by Kate Milford
66. Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Richard Wendorf
67. The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua
68. Murder by the Book; edited by Martin Edwards
69. Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture by Jeffrey M. Makala
70. Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books by Reid Byers
71. Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books by Eric Marshall White
72. Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, its Enduring Impact, and What it Reveals About America Today by Phil Tinline
73. Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century by Christina Lupton
74. An Inky Business: A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to the American Civil War by Matthew J. Shaw
75. The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
76. Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
77. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
78. Dealing in Deceit: Edwin Pearson of the 'Bewick Repository' Bookshop, 1838-1901 by Nigel Tattersfield
79. Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
80. Bird Illustrators: Some Artists in Early Lithography by Christine E. Jackson
81. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell
April
82. News and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac's "Gazette de Leyde" by Jeremy D. Popkin
83. Impact of Evidence: A Welsh Borders Mystery by Carol Carnac
84. The Lives of Moths: A Natural History of Our Planet's Moth Life by Andrei Sourakov and Rachel Warren Chadd
85. From Revolution to Revolution: Perspectives on Publishing & Bookselling, 1501-2001 by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
86. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
87. The Forger's Requiem by Bradford Morrow
88. Death on a Quiet Day by Michael Innes
89. The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic by Ryan L. Cole
90. A Private View by Michael Innes
91. A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake by Christian J. Koot
92. Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston
93. Writing in Public: Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Trevor Ross
94. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861 by Carl Ostrowski
95. The Eight of Swords by John Dickson Carr
96. The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley
97. The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr
May
98. Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
99. The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language by Peter Martin
100. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
101. North Woods by Daniel Mason
102. From Russia With Doubt: The Quest to Authenticate 181 Would-Be Masterpieces of the Russian Avant-Garde by Adam Lerner
103. The Theft of the Iron Dogs: A Lancashire Mystery by E. C. R. Lorac
104. The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
105. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
106. Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
107. Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe by Marisa Anne Bass et al.
108. Returning Light: Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael by Robert L. Harris
109. A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology After Audubon by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
110. The Mystery of the Crooked Man by Tom Spencer
111. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
112. But That's A Detail: Collected stories of A. J. Alan by A. J. Alan
113. Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Seasonal Mysteries; edited by Martin Edwards
114. Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America by Tara A. Bynum
115. The Author's Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White
June
116. English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 by Kathryn James
117. The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections by A. Edward Newton
118. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
119. The Shadows of London by Andrew Taylor
2JBD1
New mini-challenge for this year, with the same rules as last year (one book from each category per month, no double-dipping):
- a 400+ page non-fiction book
- an oversize book
- a book acquired more than fifteen years ago
- TBR book from the natural history shelves
- TBR book from the books on books shelves
- a 400+ page non-fiction book
- an oversize book
- a book acquired more than fifteen years ago
- TBR book from the natural history shelves
- TBR book from the books on books shelves
4thornton37814
Great to see you here again, Jeremy!
5PaulCranswick
New Year greetings from Kuala Lumpur. My project is at least physically completed and an addition to the city scape.
Look forward to keeping up with you in 2026, Jeremy.
