books

My own book club (2025 and 10 years wrap-up)

it’s that time of the year again, when I look back and see how many books have kept me more or less sane throughout the year.

Here’s the stats and the list, and since 2025 marked my 10 years’ experience with e-reading, I am also posting some widers stats, because basically I am that nerdy. 🙂

From 2015 to 2025 I have read 309 books (they would definitely fill a library shelf), for a total of 97629 pages. Here’s a couple of graphs for the visual people. Although I did read a good number of books in 2016, if you look at pages read, my most prolific years were the last 3, with more than a thousand pages per month read.

And here’s the full 2025 list:

  • Orbital,Samantha Harvey ,138
  • The Marriage Portrait,Maggie O’Farrell,448
  • Hamnet,Maggie O’Farrell,321
  • This Must Be the Place,Maggie O’Farrell,401
  • The Distance Between Us,Maggie O’Farrell,354
  • Our Evenings,Alan Hollinghurst,494
  • Heft ,Liz Moore ,353
  • The Unseen World,Liz Moore ,418
  • Noi due siamo uno,Matteo Spicuglia,185
  • The Edible Woman,Margaret Atwood ,353
  • The Road,Cormac McCarthy ,324
  • The Women,Kristin Hannah ,476
  • Blue Sisters,Coco Mellors,514
  • The Woman Who Lost Her Soul,Bob Shacochis ,738
  • My Friends,Hisham Matar ,461
  • Silent Spring ,Rachel Carson,155
  • We Do Not Part,Han Kang ,371
  • The City and Its Uncertain Walls,Haruki Murakami ,445
  • Elizabeth: A Novel of the Unnatural ,Ken Greenhall,146
  • The Safekeep,Yael van der Wouden ,262
  • Careless People: The explosive memoir that Meta doesn’t want you to read,Sarah Wynn-Williams ,390
  • Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination ,Karen Hao,479
  • Consider Yourself Kissed,Jessica Stanley ,337
  • Ubik,Philip K. Dick ,241
  • Confessions Of A Crap Artist,Philip K. Dick ,258
  • The Berry Pickers,Amanda Peters,295
  • Il quaderno di Maya, Isabel Allende ,403
  • The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom ,240
  • This Is How,M.J. Hyland ,384
  • Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in L:etter ,Mark Dunn,204
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ,Betty Smith ,622
  • The Names,Florence Knapp ,330
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day,David Sedaris,300
  • Less Than Zero,Bret Easton Ellis,204
  • La mattina dopo,Mario Calabresi ,107
  • Flesh,David Szalay ,334

My own book club (2024)

If you want to know what I’ve been reading this year and some of the relevant stats, here’s the full disclosure:

  • The Fraud zadie smith 446
  • Red Pill (202 GRAND) Hari Kunzru  301
  • One Moment in Time Shari Low 290
  • The Burnout Sophie Kinsella  387
  • We’ll Prescribe You a Cat Syou Ishida  238
  • Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan 466
  • The Bed Moved: Stories  Rebecca Schiff 146
  • The Bee Sting Paul Murray 638
  • Evenings and Weekends Oisín McKenna 353
  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles Hiro Arikawa 238
  • What You Are Looking for is in the Library Michiko Aoyama  247
  • Extras (The Uglies Book 4)  Scott Westerfeld  408
  • Specials (The Uglies Book 3)  Scott Westerfeld  374
  • Pretties (The Uglies Book 2) Scott Westerfeld  361
  • Uglies (The Uglies Book 1)  Scott Westerfeld  448
  • Butter Asako Yuzuki  448
  • Murder on Lake Garda Tom Hindle  358
  • Stray Stephanie Danler  249
  • Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler  353
  • Spoonbenders Daryl Gregory  498
  • An Available Man Hilma Wolitzer  305
  • How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems Randall Munroe  321
  • The Wild Silence Raynor Winn  280
  • The Salt Path Raynor Winn  273
  • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution Steven Levy 430
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin  383
  • Player One  Douglas Coupland  258
  • Microserfs Douglas Coupland  386
  • Heaven Mieko Kawakami 181
  • All The Lovers In The Night Mieko Kawakami 222
  • Generation A Douglas Coupland  322
  • Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture Douglas Coupland  196
  • Booze, Babe, and the Little Black Dress: How Innovators of the Roaring 20s Created the Consumer Revolution  Jason Voiovich 477
  • Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker Kevin Mitnick 433
  • Mythos: Greek Myths Retold Stephen Fry 415
  • Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd. Jonas Jonasson 367
  • The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared  Jonas Jonasson 402
  • Recursion Blake Crouch  324
  • Master of the Revels: A Return to Neal Stephenson’s D.O.D.O.  Nicole Galland  552
  • Artemis Andy Weir  320
  • Randomize  Andy Weir  32
  • Project Hail Mary Andy Weir  482

In 2024, I read 42 books, a total of 14608, 1217.33 pages per month.

my own book club (2023)

If you are familiar with this blog, you might know I started reading books (I won’t say exclusively, but a good 90% of them) in digital format back in 2016, with great results in terms of speed, satisfaction, user experience, availability of titles.

because I am an engineer at heart, I wanted to understand better what was the impact of digital on my book reading. here’s the result for last year, 2023, with number of books and pages read per month. I’ll be also posting stats for years 2016-2024 so we can reasonably start making some connections between the books I read and what was happening in my life and in the world.

here’s my book list for 2023, I read 27 books, a total of 12748 pages (highest number ever), with an average of 1062,3 pages/month.

  • Stranger in a Strange Land  Heinlein, Robert A. 610
  • To Be A Cat Haig, Matt 306
  • Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements Strathern, Paul 320
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma  Kolk, Bessel van der 417
  • Reamde Neal Stephenson 1055
  • The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel Neal Stephenson 769
  • Termination Shock Neal Stephenson 710
  • Anathem Neal Stephenson 1083
  • Il vento conosce il mio nome Isabel Allende 304
  • The Memory Box  Kathryn Hughes 430
  • Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Hernan Diaz 415
  • Either/Or Elif Batuman 358
  • Lessons Ian McEwan 484
  • The Testaments  Margaret Atwood  401
  • A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories  Daniel Mason  241
  • The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 570
  • Foregone  Russell Banks  322
  • The Idiot Elif Batuman 419
  • Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 644
  • Still Life  Sarah Winman 449
  • The Keeper of Stories  Sally Page 386
  • Violeta Isabel Allende 341
  • A Gentleman in Moscow  Amor Towles 378
  • Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 392
  • Capolinea Malaussène Daniel Pennac 371
  • Genuine Fraud E. Lockhart 290
  • Family of Liar E. Lockhart 283