Below is a very short quiz based on what I read in 2025. See if you can answer any of these, and if you can't (or don't want to), I put the answers at the end of this post. You can see my full list of 2025 books in my Goodreads profile.

1. Which two books include a key plot point that involves leprosy?

2. Which three books are translations from the Japanese?

3. Which four books are set in Japan? (If you answered question #2 above, you only need to find one more book.)

4. Which two books are set in India?

5. Which two books have the word "wedding" in the title?

The book I talked about the most: A tie between Shakespeare Was A Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler, and Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton.

My favorite overall books in 2025 were Colored Television by Danzy Senna; Real Americans by Rachel Khong; Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher; The Covenant of Water by Abraham Vergese; Family & Other Calamities by Leslie Gray Streeter; Black River by Nilanjana Roy.

That seems like too many books to all be favorites. What can I say other than it was a great year for reading?

Quiz Answers
1. Covenant of Water by Abraham Vergese and Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, translated by Alison Watts

2. Sweet Bean Paste, Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa, and Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton

3. Sweet Bean Paste, Days At The Morisaki Bookshop, Butter, and Death in Onsen by Ann Rose

4. Covenant of Water and Black River by Nilanjana Roy

5. The Wedding Vow by Dandy Smith and The Unwedding by Ally Condie