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2025
Year in Books
12,046
pages read
Natalie Vie
42
books read
Natalie Vie
Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover
Shortest Book
102
pages
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Longest Book
796
pages
Average book length in 2025
286
pages
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Most Shelved
2,074,319
people also shelved
The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever
Least Shelved
405
people also shelved
Natalie’s average rating for 2025
3.6
3.6
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.44 average
The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever

Natalie’s first review of the year

it was amazing
Audibly gasped at the dear husband part !
NATALIE’S 2025 BOOKS
The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever
it was amazing
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
it was amazing
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
Whites by Norman Rush
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
it was amazing
Min kamp 2 by Karl Ove Knausgård
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
The Collector by John Fowles
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
White Out by Michael W. Clune
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Gamelife by Michael W. Clune
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Iphigenia in Forest Hills by Janet Malcolm
it was amazing
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Red Lights by Georges Simenon
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
it was amazing
A New World by Amit Chaudhuri
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Natalie’s last review of the year

liked it
Adept at demonstrating how having an evil older Russian ex boyfriend gives one a certain reputation with men that can be difficult to shake, but I'm still far closer to the naive May than the transgressive Count Eleska. Honestly extremely boring and tedious to get through. Sorry for these self involved good reads reviews, but I suspect they're all the more entertaining. ...more
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