2025 Books

Num Rating Author Title Category
1 **** Enright, Elizabeth Gone-Away Lake [Fiction]
2 *** Robeson, Kenneth The Deadly Dwarf [Fiction]
3 **** Downing, David Jack of Spies [Fiction]
4 ***** Oppenheim, E. Phillips Last Train Out [Fiction]
5 ** Heinlein, Robert A. The Pursuit of the Pankera [Fiction]
6 **** Queinnec, Christian Lisp in Small Pieces [Computing]
7 *** Lowicki, Wojciech; Baum, Daniel Doctor Esperanto: A Comic Book About Ludwik Zamenhof [Comics / Biography]
8 *** Burroughs, Edgar Rice Synthetic Men of Mars [Fiction]
9 ** Simonson, Helen The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club [Fiction]
10 *** Reid, P. R. Colditz: The Full Story [History]
11 **** Christopher, John The Prince In Waiting [Fiction]
12 **** George, Jean My Side of the Mountain [Fiction]
13 ** Robeson, Kenneth The Other World [Fiction]
14 U Bird, Sarah Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains [Fiction]
15 *** Downing, David One Man's Flag [Fiction]
16 ***** Rouse, Mikel The World Got Away: A Memoir [Memoir / Music]
17 *** Sabatini, Rafael The Black Swan [Fiction]
18 Goldman, William The Princess Bride [Fiction]
19 **** Kowal, Mary Robinette The Martian Contingency [Fiction]
20 *** Bryson, Bill I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away [Essays / Humor]
21 ***** Schalansky, Judith Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will [Geography]
22 *** King, Stephen 'salem's Lot [Fiction]
23 **** Hajdu, David The Ten-Cent Plague [History]
24 ***** Seibel, Peter Practical Common Lisp [Computing]
25 **** Mecklenburg, Robert Managing Projects with GNU Make, Third Edition [Computing]
26 * Westlake, Donald Drowned Hopes [Fiction]
27 ** Robeson, Kenneth The Flaming Falcons [Fiction]
28 **** Steinmeyer, Jim The Last Greatest Magician in the World [History]
29 ***** Pressfield, Steven Killing Rommel [Fiction]
30 *** Burroughs, Edgar Rice Llana of Gathol [Fiction]
31 **** Griffith, Bill Nobody's Fool [Comics / Biography]
32 **** Forsyth, Frederick The Day of the Jackal [Fiction]
33 *** Ottaviani, Jim; Johnston, Janine Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception [Comics / Science]
34 U Mendlesohn, Farah The Inter-Galactic Playground [Literary Criticism]
35 ***** Ottaviani, Jim; Cannon, Zander; Cannon, Kevin T-Minus: The Race to the Moon [Comics / History]
36 ** Roberts, Adam The History of Science Fiction [Literary Criticism]
37 ** Robeson, Kenneth The Annihilist [Fiction]
38 **** Heinlein, Robert A. Space Cadet [Fiction]
39 **** Ottaviani, Jim Two-Foisted Science [Comics / Science]
40 ***** Ottaviani, Jim; Purvis, Leland The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded [Comics / Computing]
41 **** Wilson, Edward O.; Ottaviani, Jim Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation [Comics / Science]
42 **** Weaver, Stewart A. Exploration: A Very Short Introduction [History]
43 **** Ottaviani, Jim; Myrick, Leland [art]; Sycamore, Hilary [coloring] Feynman [Comics / Biography]
44 U Carr, John Dickson The Hollow Man [Fiction]
45 ***** Fox, Margalit The Confidence Men [Memoir / Escape]
46 **** Bujold, Lois McMaster Cetaganda [Fiction]
47 **** Peebles, Curtis Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth [History]
48 *** Wyndham, John Stowaway to Mars [Fiction]
49 **** Kerr, Philip Esau [Fiction]
50 *** Engel, Matthew Engel's England [Travel]
51 **** Sanders, Joe E.E. "Doc" Smith [Literary Criticism]
52 **** Wodehouse, P.G. Money for Nothing [Fiction]
53 * Pohl, Frederik; Williamson, Jack Undersea Quest [Fiction]
54 ***** Anderson, Stephen R. Languages: A Very Short Introduction [Linguistics]
55 **** Reed, W. Craig Red November [Memoir / History]
56 ** Robeson, Kenneth The Terror in the Navy [Fiction]
57 **** Downing, David Lenin's Roller Coaster [Fiction]
58 Langford, David Up Through an Empty House of Stars: Reviews and Essays 1980-2002 []
59 **** Lovecraft, H.P.; Culbard, I.N.J. At the Mountains of Madness: A Graphic Novel [Comics]
60 ***** Lovecraft, H.P.; Culbard, I.N.J. [art; adaptation] The Shadow Out of Time [Comics]
61 ** Sohini, Kay This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir [Comics]
62 Mendlesohn, Farah The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein [Literary Criticism]
63 Parker, K. J. Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City [Fiction]

Keith Waclena
This page last updated Mon Oct 13 11:33:34 AM CDT 2025.