# Title Author Category № Recommended
1 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro 3 👍👍
2 The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright 3
3 Rising from the Plains John McPhee 4
4 An Abundance of Katherines John Green
5 Martyr! Kaveh Akbar 5 or 1
6 Into Thin Air Jon Krakaur
7 The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton 5
8 Infinite Detail Tim Maughan 6 👍
9 Boom Town Sam Anderson 👍
10 Born to Run Christopher McDougall
11 Jelly Belly Robert Kimmel Smith 8
12 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 2
13 Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell
14 Writing Science in Plain English Anne E. Greene 10
15 A Physical Education Casey Johnston
16 The Simple Path to Wealth JL Collins

2025 reading challenge

Read at least one book from each of the following categories (one category per book):

  1. ✅ A Book with a One-Word Title
  2. ✅ A Book with an Animal in the Title
  3. ✅ ✅ A Book that Won the Pulitzer Prize
  4. ✅ A Book Published the Year You were Born
  5. ✅ ✅ An Author’s Debut Novel
  6. ✅ A Dystopian Novel
  7. A Collection of Short Stories
  8. ✅ A Book You Read as a Child
  9. A Book about Books
  10. ✅ A Book on Writing
  11. A Book Inspired by Folklore
  12. A Book about a Holiday