Top Three 2025 - The best books I read in 2025

I finally picked up reading again after a few years off. Though I didn’t plan for it to be this way, my top three turned out to be older books, with an average age of about 53 years since publication. 1. Cannery Row (1945) One book that almost made my list was Whalefall: A Novel. Part of it takes place on Cannery Row, the historic waterfront in Monterey, California. Whalefall got me interested in…