Over Christmas holidays, loved ones either gave me books or means of purchasing books, and I’m grateful.

Below are 12 volumes from my “To Read (or reread) in 2025” list (in no particular order):

1. Percival Everett’s James
2. Francis Bacon’s Essays of Francis Bacon
3. D.A. Carson’s & David Dockery’s What Does It Mean to Be a Thoughful Christian?
4. Sears’ Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
5. Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio
6. Edward Abbey’s Good News: A Novel
7. Lethem’s Chronic City
8. Cowart’s Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language
9. McCarthy’s Suttree
10. Horton’s Recovering Our Sanity
11. O’Brien’s The Country Girls
12. Bellow’s Seize the Day

*There are other volumes, of course, but these made my, “Yep, this will happen!” list.