Books Read in 2025 – Jean Snow [.net]

Finally, a decent year of reading! If you’ve followed these annual round-ups from me (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024), you’ll know that I’ve been struggling with my annual reading challenge (and as always, this only covers proper books, as I still read tons of comics, bandes-dessinées, content on the web, and magazines), and this year I’m happy to say that I although I didn’t hit my target of 20, I did reach 18, and I’m close to finishing up my 19th. I did have periods (months even) where I barely read anything, and it was really in the past few months that I feel like I found a good reading groove, and I hope that continues in the new year — last week I was thinking of giving a forced push to reach that 20 target, but in the end I felt like it wasn’t a good idea to force myself to read when I’m not necessarily in the mood for it. For 2026 I’m keeping the same target of 20, although I’m already feeling like it will be easily reached, and I think it’s the first time I start a year feeling like that.

Below, a list of what I read in 2025, with links to my reviews on Goodreads.

Ajax Penumbra (Robin Sloan)
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Sarah Wynn-Williams)
Double or Nothing (Kim Sherwood)
For Your Eyes Only (Ian Fleming)
Foundry (Eliot Peper)
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan (Patrick Macias)
People From My Neighborhood (Hiromi Kawakami)
Pietr-le-Letton (Simenon)
So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance (Gabriel Zaid)
Strange Pictures (Uketsu)
The Almost Perfect Reset: Plan, Execute and Enjoy an Almost Perfect Creative Break in Tokyo (Luis Mendo)
The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry (David Polfeldt)
The Seven Dials Mystery (Agatha Christie)
The Suitcase Clone (Robin Sloan)
Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir (Craig Mod)
Tokyo Express (Seicho Matsumoto)
Yearbook (Seth Rogen)