Books I Read in January 2025

In 2025, I wanted to set a reading goal that would be harder than the one I completed in 2024. Which is why I decided to aim for a hundred read books or more. And I have gotten off to a good start. Find out all the books I read in January 2025!

First and foremost, you should always read for pleasure or to learn new facts. While I know aiming for a hundred books or more is not an easy task, I only did so knowing I have that many books to read.

Like most people, my to-read list is much longer than I ever imagined it would be. And this is a great way to make a dent in it and check off books that I wanted to read. Having a reading goal as high as this means I will find myself reading more often.

And in January 2025, I ended up reading 11 books. My goal wasn’t to read 11 books but it happened that way and I will be surprised if I do have a double digit month again. There are definitely tricks to reading that many books in a month but you should ultimately enjoy reading the books at hand. You can see the full list below!

Books I Read in January 2025

• Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
• The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
• The Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Book 2) by Tad Williams
• Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) by Hannah Kaner
• Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17) by Agatha Christie
• Sunbringer (Fallen Gods #2) by Hannah Kaner
• Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie

Knife is a powerful story about the assassination attempt of Salman Rushdie. The novel was beautifully written and shows the power of words as Rushdie shares the details of the attack and the aftermaths of it.

I also ended up reading a couple of fantasy novels and enjoyed both of them a lot. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi is a fantasy novel that is coated in violence and makes you face the racism and violence that people that are difference face on a daily basis.

The Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams is the second novel in the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. I enjoyed the first novel and had to continue this series and find out what happens next.

This novel feels like a variation of The Lord of the Rings imagining the enemy to be actively trying to stop the heroes instead of passively like many novels. The heroes are under duress and they feel a sense of hopelessness of the task at end, making this a different experience than most fantasy novels.

One of my favorite books I read this month was The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai. This novel was released over a decade ago in Japan and was recently translated and I am happy that it was.

Lastly, I read two Agatha Christie novels and these are always fun to read. I am still trying to read most if not all of all of Christie’s novels. Dumb Witness wasn’t my favorite Christie book and it is very forgettable. Midwinter Murder is a bunch of short stories by Christie and I enjoyed this a lot and did wish some of them were standalone novels.

Conclusion

January was a great month and I have gotten off to a great start on my reading goal. I loved most of these novels and can’t wait to read even more amazing books in the coming months. Have you read any of these books? Let us know in the comments below!

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