This is my current, planning, and completed reading list for 2025.
Presidents Wall in my office.
Total books read in 2025 = 34
2025 Goal = 30 books
Total pages read in 2025 = 12.291
Currently Reading
Completed Reading in 2025
In order of date read.
Legend: H = Hardcover, P = Paperback, K = Kindle, A = Audio
The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom | Marcus Rediker | Viking | 2012 | 305 pages | Completed 1/1/25 | H
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman | Jon Krakauer | Doubleday | 2009 | 480 pages | Completed 1/4/25 | H
The Giver 25th Anniversary Edition: A Newberry Award Winner (Giver Quartet) | Lois Lowry | Clarion | 2018 | 256 pages | Completed 1/5/25 | H
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History | S.C. Gwynne | Scribner | 2010 | 273 of 319 pages | Completed 1/18/25 | H
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed | Brad Meltzer | Flatiron Books | 2025 | 250 pages | Completed 1/21/2025 | H
President McKinley: The Architect of the American Century | Robert W. Merry | Simon and Schuster | 2018 | 488 pages | Completed 2/15/2025 | H
The Traitor’s Son: The Path of the Ranger, Book 1 | Pedro Urvi | 2020 | 333 Pages | Completed 2/19/2025 | H
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue | Buddy Levy | St. Martin’s Press | 2025 | 384 pages | Completed 3/12/2025 | H, K
A Wolf Called Wander | Roseanne Parry | Greenwillow Books | 2021 | 256 pages | Completed 2/14/2025 | P
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day | Garrett M. Graff | Avid Reader Press | 2024 | 500 pages | Completed 4/2/2025 | A, H
Rutherford B. Hayes Warrior & President | Ari Hoogenboom | University Press of Kansas | 1995 | 540 pages | Completed 4/23/2025 | H
Challenger A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space |Adam Highinbotham | Simon and Schuster | 2024 | 576 pages | Started 4/24/2025 | Completed 5/1/2025 | H
Grant | Ron Chernow | Penguin Press | 2017 | 959 pages | Started 5/2/2025 | Completed 5/24/2025 | H
Escape from the Deep | Alex Kershaw | Da Capo Press | 2008 | 216 pages | Started 5/24/2025 | Completed 5/25/2025 | H
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign | D. Scott Hartwig | 2023 | 786 pages Started 5/26/2025 | Completed 6/26/2025 | H
The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | Impress | 1939 | Started 6/27/2025 | Completed 6/29/2025 | H
The Crash | Freida McFadden | Poisoned Pen Press | 2025 | 384 Pages | Started 6/29/2025 | Completed 6/30/2025 | H
Agent of Influence | Andrew Watts | Severn River Publishing | 2022 | 401 Pages | Started 6/30/2025 | Completed 7/6/2025 | K
Nightshade | Michael Connelly | Little, Brown | 2025 | 352 | Started 7/6/2025 | Completed 7/7/2025 | H
All The Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Scribner | 2014 | 531 pages | Started 7/8/2025 |Completed 7/13/2025 | H
Ward D | Frieda McFadden | Source Books | 2023 | 283 pages | Started 7/13/2025 | Completed 7/14/2025 | K
The Ghostwriter | Julie Clark | Sourcebooks | 2025 | 368 pages | Started 7/14/2025 | Completed 7/19/2025 | K
Hearing the Silence | Randy White | Dispensational Publishing | 2024 | 142 pages | Started 7/20/2025 | Completed 7/20/2025 | P
American Apocalypse | Kurt Schlichter | Schlichter | 2025 | 340 pages | 2025 | Started 7/20/2025 | Completed 7/30/2025 | K
Black Hawk Down A Story of Modern War | Mark Bowden | Atlantic Monthly Press | 1999 | 346 | Started 7/31/2025 | Completed 8/5/2025 | H
Death Row | Freida McFadden | Alibis | 2025 | 74 pages | Started 8/9/2025 | Completed 8/9/2025 | K
Killing Floor | Lee Childs | Penguin | 2006 | 435 pages | Started 8/9/2025 | K
The Poet | Michael Connelly | Little, Brown and Company | 1996 | 544 pages | Started 8/18/2025 | K
Pacific Vortex | Clive Cussler | Bantam Books | 1982 | 270 Pages | P
The Housemaid | Frieda McFadden |
Blindsight | Robin Cook | Putnam | 1992 | 492 Pages | H
Let No Guilty Man Escape | Roger H. Tuller | University of Oklahoma Press | 2001 | 163 Pages | H
The Teacher | Frieda McFadden |
Golden Buddha | Clive Cussler | Bantam | 2001 | P
Planning to Read
- Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery The U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842 | Nathaniel Philbrick | Viking Press | 2003 | 364 pages
- Andrew Jackson His Life and Times | H.W. Brands | Doubleday | 2005 | 656 pages
- The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester Arthur | Scott S. Greenberger | Da Capo Press | 2017 | 336 pages
- Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessment From Washington to Biden | Bill O’Reilly | St. Martin’s Press | 2024 |432 pages
- The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World | A.J. Baime | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2017 | 464 pages
- America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War | H.W. Brands | Doubleday | 2024 | 464 pages
- The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America | H. W. Brands | Doubleday | 2022 | 416 pages
- Mark Twain | Ron Chernow | Penguin Press | 2025 | 1200 pages
- Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding | Ryan S. Walters | Regnery Press | 2022 | 256 pages
- My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness | Howard Jones | Oxford University Press | 2017 | 256 pages
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