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2025
Year in Books
60,211
pages read
The Library Writer
182
books read
The Library Writer
In Praise of Mystery by Ada Limon
Shortest Book
35
pages
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Longest Book
896
pages
Average book length in 2025
330
pages
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Most Shelved
5,450,489
people also shelved
Sitcom Writers Talk Shop by Paula Finn
Least Shelved
248
people also shelved
The Library Writer’s average rating for 2025
4.1
4.1
A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.55 average
A Bed of Scorpions by Judith Flanders

The Library Writer’s first review of the year

really liked it
I loved this one!
THE LIBRARY WRITER’S 2025 BOOKS
The Art of Community by Charles H. Vogl
The Pivot Year by Brianna Wiest
really liked it
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel
Where the Forest Meets the River by Shannon Bowring
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
A Bed of Scorpions by Judith Flanders
This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher
The Book of Hygge by Louisa Thomsen Brits
The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco by Michelle Chouinard
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
365 Toddler Activities That Inspire Creativity by Joni Levine
Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow by Steve Almond
it was amazing
Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate O'Shaughnessy
The Thorny Grace of It by Brian Doyle
A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? by Anna Montague
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
it was amazing
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
The Author's Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams
Iron House by John Hart
The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons
The Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon
The Brontë Plot by Katherine Reay
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
The Do-Over by Suzanne Park
The Bird and the Sword by Amy Harmon
Cherished Belonging by Gregory Boyle
it was amazing
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
Safe by Mark Daley
Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black
This Changes Everything by Tyler Merritt
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Murder in the Palais Royal by Cara Black
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
it was amazing
There's No Coming Back from This by Ann Garvin
Going Home by Tom Lamont
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Café With No Name by Robert Seethaler
Good Poems for Hard Times by Garrison Keillor
The Queen and the Cure by Amy Harmon
Once a Castle by Sarah Arthur
A Forty Year Kiss by Nickolas Butler
really liked it
Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray
Beyond Anxiety by Martha N. Beck
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
Wild Courage by Jenny Wood
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
Kate & Frida by Kim Fay
it was amazing
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Heartwood by Amity Gaige
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man] by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
really liked it
The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry
The Choi of Cooking by Roy Choi
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
The Mademoiselle Alliance by Natasha Lester
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
Strangers in Time by David Baldacci
Do It Gorgeously by Sophie Uliano
Good Morning, I Love You by Shauna Shapiro
I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Perfect Rom-Com by Melissa Ferguson
it was amazing
Ordinary Time by Annie B. Jones
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
Do Less by Kate Northrup
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
Love in Tandem by Becca Kinzer
The Love Haters by Katherine Center
it was amazing
One Death at a Time by Abbi Waxman
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys
Reset by Dan Heath
Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams
Good Soil by Jeff Chu
Midnight Chicken by Ella Risbridger
The Year of Miracles by Ella Risbridger
Room to Breathe by Sharon Salzberg
The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson
really liked it
Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
It. Goes. So. Fast. by Mary Louise Kelly
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin
Sitcom Writers Talk Shop by Paula Finn
Dæmon Voices by Philip Pullman
The Bible Says So by Daniel McClellan

The Library Writer’s last review of the year

it was amazing
I’ve appreciated Dan’s presence online, and am actually surprised I still learned so much from his book. I expected more of a recap of things I’d already heard him explain, but the framework he is able to build out in book form gives him room to hang so much more research and dare I say wisdom. I’ve long appreciated Dan’s scholarly perspective and brilliant way of making the scholarship accessible to laymen, and that’s all here in book form, as i ...more
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