Some books I read in 2025

2025 wasn't my most enthusiastic year of reading but I finished 83 books, and a lot of them were pretty good! Highlights: Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha , a poet's novel (complimentary) that tells a whole complicated life in under 200 pages. Finally managed to read the whole of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the first Earthsea trilogy, too. Turns out there's a bunch of stuff at the end of LOTR…