This year I’m trying a reading-challenge.

# 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 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
17 The Cat Who Saved Books Sosuke Natsukawa 9
18 Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman 👍
19 They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
20 Carl’s Doomsday Scenario Matt Dinniman
21 The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook Matt Dinniman
22 The Gate of the Feral Gods Matt Dinniman
23 The Butcher’s Masquerade Matt Dinniman
24 The Eye of the Bedlam Bride Matt Dinniman
25 This Inevitable Ruin Matt Dinniman
26 I Regret Almost Everything Keith McNally
27 Hemlock & Silver T. Kingfisher 11
28 Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
29 The Wealth Ladder Nick Maggiulli
30 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Hank Green
31 Katabasis R.F. Kuang
32 Lucky Day Chuck Tingle
33 Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang 7 👍
34 The Enurance Artist Jared Beasley
35 What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory Brian Eno & Bette A. 👍
36 The Book of Illusions Paul Auster

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