Bethany’s 2025 Book List

  1. Avi, Loyalty
  2. Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
  3. Randy Ribay, Everything We Never Had
  4. Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds
  5. Ian McEwan, Atonement
  6. Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm
  7. Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
  8. Sarah Viren, To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
  9. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
  10. Erin Entrada Kelly, The First State of Being
  11. Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
  12. Miranda July, All Fours
  13. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
  14. Alison Espach, The Wedding People
  15. Sarah Vowell, Unfamiliar Fishes
  16. Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise
  17. Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
  18. John Green, Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection
  19. Orson Scott Card, Empire
  20. James Ijames, Fat Ham
  21. Novella Carpenter, Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild
  22. Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping
  23. Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
  24. Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
  25. Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
  26. Moshe Kasher, Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient and Then Turned Sixteen
  27. Curtis Sittenfeld, Sisterland
  28. Orson Scott Card, Hidden Empire
  29. Daniel Barban Levin, Slonim Woods 9
  30. Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars
  31. Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
  32. Jess Walter, So Far Gone
  33. Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games
  34. Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War
  35. Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy
  36. Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit
  37. Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
  38. R.F. Kuang, Katabasis
  39. Robert Dugoni, The World Played Chess
  40. Khalid Hosseini, The Kite Runner
  41. Hanya Yanigihara, A Little Life

Audiobooks

  1. David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
  2. Ron Chernow, Grant
  3. Steve Silberman, Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
  4. David I. Kertzer, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
  5. Emily Oster, The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years
  6. Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
  7. Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
  8. Andrew McCarthy, Walking With Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
  9. Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
  10. Dan Jones, The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
  11. Patric Gagne, Sociopath:A Memoir
  12. Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
  13. Ron Chernow, Washington:A Life
  14. Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life With Pat Conroy
  15. Mary Beard, Emperor of Rome:Ruling the Ancient World
  16. Jonathan Haidt: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  17. Dan Jones, Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King
  18. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting a Generation Up for Failure
  19. Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
  20. Sanjay Gupta, M.D. and Kristin Loberg, World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
  21. Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
  22. Ron Chernow, Mark Twain
  23. Hanif Abdurraqib, There’s Always Next Year: On Basketball and Ascension
  24. Alexis Okeowo, Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
  25. Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus