Books We Read in 2025

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119 books. Africa in the foreground — Howard W. French, Patrice Nganang, Imbolo Mbue, Tim Butcher on the Congo.

We borrowed 119 different books in 2025, all read on the e-readers reviewed on this site. A selection is below; this page is added to as we work back through the archive.

A selection from 2025

  • A Continent for the Taking — Howard W. French · Amazon · eBay
  • A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times — Meron Hadero · Amazon · eBay
  • A Trail of Crab Tracks — Patrice Nganang · Amazon · eBay
  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay C. Gibson · Amazon · eBay
  • All the Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy · Amazon · eBay
  • American Street — Ibi Zoboi · Amazon · eBay
  • Behold the Dreamers — Imbolo Mbue · Amazon · eBay
  • Black AF History — Michael Harriot · Amazon · eBay
  • Blood River — Tim Butcher · Amazon · eBay
  • Big Picture — Percival Everett · Amazon · eBay

Placeholder: the full 2025 list is still being transcribed from our Libby export. If there is a title you want the rest of, tell us.

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All of these came from a public library. If you are choosing a device for borrowing, our library e-reader guide is blunt about why Kobo beats Kindle outside the US.