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2025 Reading List

I'm a little late posting this, but it's time for my annual accounting of all the reading and listening I've done over the course of 2025. Here's how this past year broke down in terms of titles and numbers:

= favorite
= also really enjoyed

TOTALS

         Books: 51
         Podcasts: 1,153
         Comics: 444
         Scripts: 12

According to Goodreads, my stats were: 14,605 pages read (down 4,003 words from last year), 292 average pages per book (down 40 pages from last year), the shortest book I read was 38 pages (up 8 pages from last year), and the longest book I read was 560 pages (down 285 pages from last year)


BOOKS

         Fiction

                    3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years by John Scalzi
                    Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
                   Bad Date by Ellery Lloyd
                   City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
                   A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
                   Daggerheart Core Rulebook by Darrington Press
                   D&D Monster Manual (2024) by Wizards of the Coast
                   Eberron: Rising from the Last War by Wizards of the Coast
                   Eerie Basin by Ivy Pochoda
                   A Farewell to Arms by John Steinbeck
                   Fog & Fury by Rachel Howzell Hall
                   Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
                   Gemini Blue by Kara Cavalli
                   Heir to Atlantis by Chris Fox
                   Hero of Metalhaven by G J Ogden
                   I'll Follow You by Charlene Wang
                   The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold by Cate Holahan
                    The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
                   The Magitech Chronicles Roleplaying Game by Chris Fox
                    Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
                   One by One by Ruth Ware
                   Only Way Out by Tod Goldberg
                    The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
                    Something Under the Bed is Drooling by Bill Watterson
                   The Starless Crown by James Rollins
                   Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide by Wizards of the Coast
                   Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn by Matthew Mercer
                   Voice Like a Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson
                   What Happened to Lucy Vale by Lauren Oliver
                   While the Dark Remains by Joanna Ruth Meyer
                    Without Fail by Lee Child

         Nonfiction

                   The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication by Robert C. Maxwell
                    Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
                   American Black Widow by Gregg Olsen
                   The Artful Edit by Susan Bell
                    Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer, et al
                   Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You) by The McElroys
                   Finding Your Voice as a Writer by C.A. Mason
                   For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond by Ben Macintyre
                   The Game Master's Book of Astonishing Random Tables by Ben Egloff
                   The Game Master's Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying by Jonah Fishel
                   How to Be a Rockstar Screenwriter by David Silverman & Rogena Schuyler
                   How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
                   How to Sell 1,000 Books a Month by Susan U. Neal
                   How to Write a Screenplay That Doesn't Suck & Will Actually Sell by Michael Rogan
                    Open by Andre Agassi
                    Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
                   Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
                   The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide (Expanded Genres Edition) by James D'Amato
                   The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Guide by James D'Amato
                    The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Worldbuilding Guide by James D'Amato


PODCASTS

                   Adventuring Academy — 22 episodes
                   Ask NT Wright Anything — 53 episodes
                   Dead Pilots Society — 13 episodes
                    The Economics of Everyday Things — 48 episodes
                    Explain It To Me — 48 episodes
                   The Ezra Klein Show — 71 episodes
                   Freakonomics — 49 episodes
                   The Gray Area — 30 episodes
                   How Did This Get Made? — 9 episodes
                   How I Built This — 3 episodes
                   Imaginary Worlds — 21 episodes
                   Interesting Times (f.k.a. Matter of Opinion) — 37 episodes
                    Not Another D&D Podcast — 11 episodes
                   Offline with Jon Favreau — 50 episodes
                    Pod Save America — 138 episodes
                   Pod Save the World — 54 episodes
                   Politix — 51 episodes
                   Q&A — 17 episodes
                   The Rewatchables — 25 episodes
                   Runaway Country — 10 episodes
                   Scriptnotes — 24 episodes
                   The Slate Political Gabfest — 60 episodes
                   Slow Burn — 14 episodes
                    Strict Scrutiny — 15 episodes
                   TED Radio Hour — 17 episodes
                   Untitled Female Driven Podcast — 5 episodes
                   What A Day — 224 episodes
                    Worlds Beyond Number — 14 episodes
                   Write On — 12 episodes
                   Writer's Panel — 8 episodes


COMICS

                   Alien Paradiso — 4 issues
                   Alien Romulus — 1 issue
                   Aliens vs. Avengers — 1 issue
                   All-New Venom — 4 issues
                   Alligator Loki — 1 issue
                   Amazing Spider-Man — 18 issues
                   Avengers — 7 issues
                   Avengers Assemble — 4 issues
                   Blade — 4 issues
                   Bloodhunters — 3 issues
                   Cable: Love & Chrome — 3 issues
                   Captain America — 5 issues
                   Chasm: Curse of Kaine — 3 issues
                   Conquest 2099 — 5 issues
                   Crypt of Shadows — 1 issue
                   Dazzler — 3 issues
                   Daredevil — 7 issues
                    Daredevil: Unleash Hell — 3 issues
                   Daredevil: Woman Without Fear — 2 issues
                   Deadpool — 9 issues
                   Deadpool & Wolverine — 3 issues
                   Eddie Brock: Carnage — 2 issues
                   Exceptional X-Men — 6 issues
                   Fantastic Four — 7 issues
                   Fantastic Four: The Dinosaur Fantastic Four — 1 issue
                   Get Fury — 1 issue
                   Giant-Sized X-Men — 1 issue
                   Hellhunters — 4 issues
                   Hellverine — 4 issues
                   Holiday Tales to Astonish — 1 issue
                   Hulk — 1 issue
                   Immortal Thor — 6 issues
                   Incredible Hulk — 5 issues
                   Insurgent Iron Man — 1 issues
                   Infinity Watch — 2 issues
                   Iron Man — 5 issues
                   Kahhori — 1 issue
                   Kid Venom — 2 issues
                   Kidpool & Spider-Boy — 1 issue
                   Laura Kinney: Wolverine — 3 issues
                   Magik — 3 issues
                   Marvel Must-Haves — 1 issue
                   Marvel Mutts — 1 issue
                   Marvel Zombies: Dawn of Decay — 3 issues
                   Miles Morales: Spider-Man — 7 issues
                   Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu — 6 issues
                   Mystique — 5 issues
                   Namor — 6 issues
                   Negasonic Teenage Warhead — 1 issue
                   New Champions — 3 issues
                   Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom — 1 issue
                   Nyx — 7 issues
                    One World Under Doom — 11 issues
                   Petpool: Pool Party — 1 issue
                   Phases of the Moon Knight — 3 issues
                    Phoenix — 7 issues
                   Power Man: Timeless — 2 issues
                   Predator vs. Black Panther — 3 issues
                    Psylocke — 5 issues
                   Robbie Reyes: Ghost Rider — 1 issues
                   Rogue: Savage Land — 2 issues
                   Sabretooth: The Dead Don't Talk — 4 issues
                   Sam Wilson: Captain America — 3 issues
                   Scarlet Witch — 6 issues
                   Secret Wars — 2 issues
                   Sentinels — 5 issues
                   Spectacular Spider-Men — 6 issues
                   Spider-Boy — 6 issues
                   Spider-Gwen — 7 issues
                   Spider-Man — 6 issues
                   Spider Society — 2 issues
                   Spidey and his Amazing Friends — 2 issues
                   Spirits of Vengeance — 5 issues
                   Star Wars — 30 issues
                   Storm — 6 issues
                   Timeslide — 1 issue
                   TVA — 4 issues
                   Ultimate Black Panther — 6 issues
                   Ultimate Spider-Man — 6 issues
                   Ultimate Wolverine — 2 issues
                   Ultimate Universe — 1 issue
                   Ultimate X-Men — 5 issues
                   The Ultimates — 6 issues
                   Ultraman x Avengers — 3 issues
                   Uncanny X-Men — 13 issues
                   Venom — 2 issues
                    Venom War — 20 issues
                   Web of Spider-Verse — 2 issues
                   Werewolf by Night — 7 issues
                   West Coast Avengers — 5 issues
                    What If...? — 7 issues
                   Wolverine — 13 issues
                   Women of Marvel: She-Devils — 1 issue
                   X-Factor — 4 issues
                   X-Force — 7 issues
                   X-Men — 10 issues
                   Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man — 3 issues


SCRIPTS

                   THE 14TH FLOOR by Amy Reed & Brennan Scannell
                   RICH DAN POOR DAN by John Enbom
                    BUFFALO TENS (Episode 1 and 2) by Riki Lindhome & Natasha Leggero
                   CAMP FRIENDS by Lauren Herstik
                   LETTERS TO BEYONCE by Austen Earl
                   HOW TO GET OVER BRYAN BYERS by Ilana Pena & Anne Sundell
                    BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED by Chris Marcil & Sam Johnson
                   HERE SHE LIES by Gracie Glassmeyer
                    CHEAP SEATS by David S. Rosenthal
                    HUMANS OF THE AMERICAS by Jim Brandon & Brian Singleton
                   DREAM by Lisa Muse Bryant
                   GUY TEXT by Aaron Brownstein & Simon Ganz