Books I’ve Read So Far In 2025
January - June: 21 books
We’re halfway through the year and today, I want to tell you about the books I’ve read so far.
The books I’ve read so far in 2025
I “had to” round out my fascination with Sally Rooney’s characters and read Normal People and Intermezzo. It was so fun to find
’s essay Rain Man for Millennials and Other Adventures in Ableism with Sally Rooney in the wild on the internet and exchange thoughts on the book.My cousin (hi!) had been recommending Haruki Murakami to me for ages and when I heard his latest book The City and its Uncertain Walls involved an autistic character, I was finally convinced!
I read Thumbsucker standing in the library; I just noticed it on a shelf one day.
Tiny Experiments appeared in my Substack notes feed (thank you
!).
Many of you will know that The Serviceberry inspired me to gift Time to Think. The other book on my list, written by a Native American author, is I Can Make This Promise, a fantastic middle grade novel I read with my daughter. The author Christine Day is a citizen of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe and we recognized a bunch of local landmarks in the story—from the gum wall in Seattle, to the ferries on the Puget Sound.
Conscious was part of my deep dive after listening to the Telepathy Tapes. It’s short and packed with information. I recommend it!
All the Little Bird Hearts includes an autistic narrator; I particularly liked how echolalia was portrayed.
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates was simply powerful. You should read it if you haven’t yet. (Apologies to all of my PDA friends who were just about to pick it up and now won’t be able to. Forget I ever said anything!)
If you’re looking for an easy read with ADHD representation: A Love Song For Ricki Wilde is a good choice!
And then there’s The Art of Gathering…It found me just when I needed it and have since been recommending it left and right. I wrote down so many notes and any group gathering I will offer in the future will be influenced by it.
How I select books to read
I started out with a clear TBR list for a few reasons:
I wanted to make an effort to attend a book club in my local community where we read a variety of anti-racism related books.
Having read about one book per week on average for the last couple of years, I noticed I shied away from longer books, or those who just take a bit more time and effort to go through. I wanted to be intentional about including those books as well. As a result, I’m now also tracking page count (4,816) and hours listened (30h 48min).
And finally, I noticed at the end of last year that I hadn’t read a single book by a Native American author—and I wanted to change that.
Having said that, I keep an eye on the list as guidance, but I still pick up books when they pique my interest.
My Book Tracker
If you want to see my tracker from last year, check this out. I haven’t yet decided whether to stick with the same format for the second half of the year. Do you have a fun way to track your books?
Now, I want to hear from you! What books have you enjoyed so far this year?
Let me know in the comments!
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Until next week!
Take care,
Hanna
That's a pretty impressive list of books that you've read. Tiny Experiments is a book that I've been eying ever since you mentioned it earlier this year.
As for me, my goal is to read more books than last year (being that I read one book last year, that's a low bar). So far I've read one (a book of poetry called tender teeth) and in the process of reading two others (Jane Eyre and Under the Eye of the Big Bird). There's a bunch of books that I want to read though. Some of the titles I want to read include The Walls Have Eyes by Petra Molnar and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. I also have a copy of Wuthering Heights that I need to get to reading - but I promised to myself that I would wait until I finish Jane Eyre first!
Yesss So here for Tiny Habits!