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2025
Year in Books
56,843
pages read
Bam cooks the books
172
books read
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Abscond by Abraham Verghese
Shortest Book
38
pages
The Iliad by Homer
Longest Book
846
pages
Average book length in 2025
330
pages
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
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2,558,449
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The 14-Day Anti-Inflammatory Diet by Mike Zimmerman
Least Shelved
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Bam cooks the books’s average rating for 2025
4.0
4.0
Hold Strong by Robert Dugoni
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.64 average
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall

Bam cooks the books’s first review of the year

really liked it
**Happy Publication Day!**

*4+ stars. As someone who has lived through two floods, this post-apocalyptic scenario would be my worst nightmare. The plot: The polar ice caps have melted, flooding all the coastal regions of the world and creating chaos. Nonie, the young girl narrating this story, is part of a family of scientists who are now amongst others living inside the American Museum of Natural History. That is until a 'hypercane' destroys the ...more
BAM COOKS THE BOOKS’S 2025 BOOKS
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
really liked it
Cross My Heart by Megan Collins
The Winter Sister by Megan Collins
The Lost House by Melissa Larsen
Hold Strong by Robert Dugoni
Blood Test by Charles Baxter
Head Cases by John McMahon
Chain Reaction by James Byrne
Dead Money by Jakob Kerr
Changing Places by David Lodge
The Good Detective by John McMahon
Go as a River by Shelley Read
it was amazing
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova
Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
The Evil Men Do by John McMahon
Nemesis by Gregg Hurwitz
Cold as Hell by Kelley Armstrong
The Iliad by Homer
it was amazing
Battle Mountain by C.J. Box
Killing Me Soufflé by Ellie Alexander
Old Soul by Susan Barker
When the Earth Was Green by Riley Black
The 14-Day Anti-Inflammatory Diet by Mike Zimmerman
Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Eleven Numbers by Lee Child
A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl by Nanda Reddy
We Don't Talk About Emma by J.D. Barker
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
The Easy Superfoods Cookbook by Emily Cooper
The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian
it was amazing
Splinter Effect by Andrew Ludington
Dark Calories by Cate Shanahan
Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
Making the Best of What's Left by Judith Viorst
Nobody’s Fool by Harlan Coben
Twist by Colum McCann
Eat Smarter by Shawn Stevenson
Gothictown by Emily Carpenter
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
it was amazing
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
Eat Smarter Family Cookbook by Shawn Stevenson
Dead Post Society by Diane Kelly
The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson Wheeler
The Maid's Secret by Nita Prose
A Good Kill by John McMahon
Thicker Than Water by Megan Collins
Strangers in Time by David Baldacci
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
it was amazing
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
Leave No Trace by A.J. Landau
Cold Burn by A.J. Landau
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
it was amazing
The Children of Eve by John Connolly
My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay
The Names by Florence Knapp
We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Dream State by Eric Puchner
it was amazing
Something I Keep Upstairs by J.D. Barker
The 15-Minute Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners by Yolanda Blake
Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen
Our Last Wild Days by Anna Bailey
Death at a Highland Wedding by Kelley Armstrong
Lay Your Armor Down by Michael Farris Smith
The Safari by Jaclyn Goldis
The Spanish Diplomat's Secret by Nev March
The Silversmith's Puzzle by Nev March
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie by James Lee Burke
it was amazing
The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon
The Girls of Good Fortune by Kristina McMorris
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North
What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda
Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
really liked it
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel
The Red Queen by Martha Grimes
The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
Heartwood by Amity Gaige
Badlands by Douglas Preston
Rage by Linda Castillo
The Blue Horse by Bruce Borgos
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
it was amazing
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart
The Medusa Protocol by Rob Hart
The Keto Reset Diet Cookbook by Mark Sisson
The Searcher by Tana French
Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee
The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb
Dead Line by Marc Cameron
Picky by Helen Zoe Veit

Bam cooks the books’s last review of the year

liked it
**Happy Release Day**

I was interested in reading an arc of this non-fiction book about picky eaters when it was offered to me because my 10-year-old grandson is a very picky eater. Being someone who has tried to eat in healthy ways for many years, I was pretty sure I knew what the author would say is the cause behind the current increase in fussy eating among American children...and I was right: ultra-processed foods and snacking.

But first, the ...more
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