# 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 👍

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