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2025
Reading Wrap-Up

Owned Read Books

Stay True by Hua Hsu

Stay True

Hua Hsu

196 pages • 2022 • 25 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
4.0 bgates's review
Shift by Hugh Howey

Silo #2

Shift

Hugh Howey

570 pages • 2013 • 101 editions

fiction dystopian science fiction dark mysterious tense medium-paced
2.75 bgates's review
The Militia House by John Milas

The Militia House

John Milas

272 pages • 2023 • 5 editions

fiction horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
3.0 bgates's review
Solito by Javier Zamora

Solito

Javier Zamora

416 pages • 2022 • 44 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional sad tense medium-paced
3.5 bgates's review
Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy

Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

Andrew McCarthy

256 pages • 2023 • 6 editions

nonfiction memoir travel adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced
3.75 bgates's review
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li

172 pages • 2025 • 20 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
4.5 bgates's review
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

The Rape of Nanking

Iris Chang

290 pages • 1997 • 46 editions

nonfiction history dark informative sad slow-paced
3.5 bgates's review
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend by Tom Clavin, Bob Drury

The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend

Tom Clavin, Bob Drury

432 pages • 2013 • 9 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
2.5 bgates's review
Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen

Darwin Comes to Town

Menno Schilthuizen

304 pages • 2018 • 20 editions

nonfiction nature science hopeful informative medium-paced
4.5 bgates's review
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

476 pages • 2021 • 307 editions

fiction science fiction adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced
4.5 bgates's review