In 2025, I completed a total of 37 books. While I did read many of them, I listened to the majority as audiobooks. I can quickly devour stories because I enjoy listening to audiobooks while doing mundane tasks like laundry, driving to lunch, or taking a shower. It’s an excellent way to enjoy a good book, especially when the narration is captivating.

• A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
• Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture by Andy Cohen
• The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland by James H. Madison
• CHEROKEE HISTORY FOR INDIAN LOVERS by Jerry Ellis
• Available Light by Dayton Ward
• It’s Not Really About the Hair: The Honest Truth About Life, Love, and the Business of Beauty by Tabatha Coffey
• The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World by Charles C. Mann
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
• Almost Interesting by David Spade
• Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
• The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump by Stanley Fish
• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry
• Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
• Hello, Molly!: A Memoir by Molly Shannon
• It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote by Bruce Vilanch
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Testaments: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
• The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection by Tamim Ansary
• The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• If You Ask Me: And of Course You Won’t by Betty White
• Who Knew by Barry Diller
• Early American Sex Scandals by Cassandra Good
• The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
• Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao
• All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Rogue Elements by John Jackson Miller
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
• Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
• In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work by Kyla Scanlon
• Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

A few standout books for me this year were Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary and The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker. Both are non-fiction books about history that were excellent as audiobooks.