100+ Books in 2025 discussion

Here's my go at 100 books for the year.

1. Pomodoro! by David Gentilcore

2. A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain

3. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

4. My Life in France by Julia Child

5. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson

6. Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander
7. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

8. Vincent Van Gogh's Complete letters by Van Gogh
9. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by the fabulous Minday Kaling
10. Redeeming the Rogue by Donna MacMeans (a Goodreads win!)
11. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
12. Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
13. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
14. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
15. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Rigler
16. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
17. Timeless by Gail Carriger

18. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
19. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
21. A Siner's Grand Tour by Tony Perrottet
22. Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
23. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

24. Looking for Alaska by John Green
25. Steampunk! by Kelly Link
26. Ganymede by Cherie Priest
27. Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz
28. Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
29. Dreadnought by Cherie Priest
30. From Stonehenge to Samarkand by Brian Fagan
31. Harry Potter from Page to Screen by Bob McCabe

32. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
33. Paper Towns by John Green
34. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
35. Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
36. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
37. Bossypants by Tina Fey
38. Cigars of the Pharaoh by Herge
39. The Castafiore Affair by Herge
40. Tintin in America by Herge
41. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
42. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
43. Persuasion by Jane Austen
44. The History of England by Jane Austen
45. Kissed in Paris by Juliette Sobonet
46. The Fault in Our Stars for John Green
47. The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
48. Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
49. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
50. The Doctor and the Kid by Mark Resnick
51. Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls by Lela Lee
52. Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
53. Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
54. A Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
55. Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
56. Brewed Awakening by Joshua Bernstein
57. Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
58. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
59. World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes
60. Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey by the Countess of Carnarvon
61. The Elizabethans by A.N. Wilson
62. Jane Austen by Rebecca Dickson
63. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
64. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
65. Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
66. Ulysses by James Joyce
67. Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
68. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
69. The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
70. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

71. M is for Magic by Neil Gaimen
72. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohen
73. Withering Tights by Louise Rennison
74. The Girl Who Was on Fire by Leah Wilson
75. Game of Thrones: Graphic Novel by Daniel Abraham
76. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
77. Stardust by Neil Gaimen
78. Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
79. The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez
80. Documentary: A History by Erik Barnouw
81. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
82. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
83. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
84. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
85. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
86. Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
87. Squirrel Seeks Chipmonk by David Sedaris
88. Ethnographer's Eye by Anna Grimshaw
89. Life of Pi by Yann Martell
90. Soulless: Manga by Gail Carriger
91. Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
92. Inexplicables by Cherie Priest
93. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
94. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

95. Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
96. Horse and his Boy by C.S. Lewis
97. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
98. She Went all the Way by Meg Cabot
99. Growing Season by David Hassler
100. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis