It is December 20 and I am having to admit today that I am tapped out for 2025. I’ll turn this back on around January 2.
I have read 52 books this year, it seems, so I’ll close this by listing some of the ones I liked best. If you’re still reading this, then happy new year. I hope it’s a good and peaceful one.
- THE BLAZING WORLD: A NEW HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND, Jonathan Healey
- THE PASSENGER, Cormac McCarthy
- HERESY: JESUS CHRIST AND THE OTHER SONS OF GOD, Catherine Nixey
- THE MANIAC, Benjamin Labatut
- THE TAIGA SYNDROME, Cristina Rivera Garza
- ERIC SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE, Ian Penman
- ULTRA-PROCESSED PEOPLE, Chris van Tulleken
- THE YEARS, Annie Ernaux
- WAR FOR ETERNITY, Benjamin Teitelbaum