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Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Matthew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Matthew Budman’s Followers (83)
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Matthew Budman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Goleta, Calif., The United States
Website
Twitter
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Member Since
October 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/matthewbudman
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Instant Expert: Collecting Books
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2004
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Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age
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2019
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Heroes
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1999
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Matthew’s Recent Updates
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook:
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| An utterly fascinating novel that begins as a rich albeit downbeat vision of a post-disaster world a century in the future and becomes a story about knowledge itself: what it's possible to know about other people's thoughts and actions, and, indeed, ...more | |
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| Deep Water offers another trademark Highsmith sociopath, a guy who's accomplished and ambitious and, yes, talented but has something missing. But while the brilliant The Talented Mr. Ripley offers a propulsive narrative engine, driven by Tom Ripley's ...more | |
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Matthew Budman
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What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction |
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Matthew Budman
entered a giveaway
Exit Party
by Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
5 copies
available, ends on
May 30, 2026
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| Wild Faith could hardly be more relevant. Lavin's big takeaway—that we need to take Christian nationalists' fanaticism at face value—is critical in considering how to respond to the brutal, misogynist cadre of fascists surrounding Donald Trump. I jus ...more | |
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“There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books; I plead guilty to being such a chap. —Cecil Vyse”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”
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