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    What is Liam Reading 2025?

    2025 What is Liam reading?

    I read more than I expected last year, so I will break it down by month this year.

    (RR) Indicates a Re-read.

    JAN:

    • Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
    • Insomnia – Stephen King
    • Vicious – VE Schwab
    • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert Spolasky
    • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy – Simon Singh
    • The Book of Hidden Things – Francesco Dimitri
    • Kraken – China Mieville
    • Vengeful – VE Schwab
    • A Master of Djinn – P. Djeli Clark

    FEB:

    • Amazonia – James Rollins
    • The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
    • Ringworld – Larry Niven
    • Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stweart
    • Martyr – Kaveh Akbar
    • The City of Last Chances – Adrian Tchaikovsky
    • Crosstalk – Connie Willis
    • I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes within us and a Grander View of Life – Ed Yong
    • Grey Bees – Andrey Kurkov
    • The Dangers of Smoking in Bed – Mariana Enriquez

    MAR:

    • This is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyber-weapons Arms Race – Nicole Perloth
    • The End of Drum-Time – Hanna Pylväinen
    • Daughters of Night – Laura Shepard-Robinson
    • Hidden Potential: The Science of Acheiving Greater Things – Adam Grant
    • War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
    • This Other Eden – Paul Harding
    • The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell – Jonas Olofsson
    • Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann

    APR:

    • Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
    • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond
    • The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage into the World of Weird – Dan Schreiber
    • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein
    • The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz
    • Anathem – Neal Stephenson
    • Wordhunter – Stella Sands
    • The Body: A Guide for Occupants – Bill Bryson

    MAY:

    • A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James
    • The Drowned World – J. G. Ballard
    • Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
    • High Rise – J. G. Ballard
    • The October Country – Ray Bradbury
    • Cage of Souls – Adrian Tchaikovsky
    • Otherlands: A Journey Through Earths Extinct Worlds – Thomas Halliday
    • Metro 2033 – Dmitry Glukhovsky
    • A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
    • The Book of Koli – M. R. Carey
    • The Overstory – Richard Powers
    • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism – Amanda Montell
    • The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All – Laird Barron
    • The Trials of Koli – M. R. Carey
    • The Fall of Koli – M. R. Carey

    JUN:

    • Trust – Hernan Diaz
    • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
    • The Complete Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino
    • Human Acts – Han Kang
    • I am a Strange Loop – Douglas Hofstader
    • East of Eden – John Steinbeck
    • Mongrels – Stephen Graham Jones
    • Empire of Sand – Tasha Suri
    • Slow Horses – Mick Herron
    • The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math from One to Infinity – Steven Strogratz
    • Once There Were Wolves – Charlotte McConaghy
    • Upgrade – Blake Crouch

    JUL:

    Dr Sleep
    • Hail Mary – Andy Weir
    • Red Rising – Pierce Brown
    • The Stand – Stephen King (RR)
    • Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton (RR)
    • Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
    • The Hike – Drew Magary (RR)
    • The Odyssey – Stephen Fry
    • N0S4A2 – Joe Hill (RR)
    • The Shining – Stephen King (RR)
    • Dr. Sleep – Stephen King (RR)
    • Pines: Wayward Pines 1 – Blake Crouch
    • Metro 2034 – Dmitry Glukhovsky
    • Monsters and Magical Sticks: There is no such thing as hypnosis – Steven Heller

    AUG:

    • Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (RR)
    • Wayward: Wayward Pines 2 – Blake Crouch
    • The Last Town: Wayward Pines 3 – Blake Crouch 
    • King Rat – China Mieville
    • The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut 
    • Destiny Disrupted: A history of the world through Islamic eyes – Tamim Ansary
    • A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire 1 – George R.R. Martin 
    • A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire 2 – George R.R. Martin
    • Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy – Arik Kershenbaum 
    • A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire 3 – George R.R. Martin
    • A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire 4 – George R.R. Martin