Every Book on my Physical TBR | 2025 Edition

Hey hi hello friends, and welcome back to my blog!

Okay, I fully thought I had already done this blog post so imagine my surprise when I started setting up my January reading wrap-up and didn't see it posted! This is one of my favorite posts to do every year at the start of the year, and I suppose I can still do this now since I didn't actually get to any of my TBR in January (oops...). 

This year, I have 85 books on my physical TBR. I've mentioned this in my 2025 goals post, but just in case you want a recap, when I say my "physical TBR" I am referring to the books that I physically own on my shelves that I haven't yet read. I won't be including books that I buy in 2025 (which hopefully won't be too many) on this list. This won't be an extensive deep dive into each and every book, but rather a comprehensive list. I'll be separating the books into categories such as nonfiction, series, and standalones.

Okay, let's get into it!

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Poetry

New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

Dragons by Devin Johnston

The Essential Rumi by Rumi

Letters in a Bruised Cosmos by Liz Howard

God of Nothingness by Mark Wunderlich

A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

Felicity by Mary Oliver

The Poems of Nakahara Chuya by Nakahara Chuya

The Essential Haiku by Robert Hass

The Song of Kieu by Nguyen Du

The Complete Poems by John Milton

Nonfiction

The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimaki

The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Real Valkyrie by Nancy Marie Brown

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 

An Oresteia by Anne Carson

Greek Myths by Charlotte Higgins

The Greek Histories by Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm

The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss

Thebes: the Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge

Classics

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis

How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Silence by Shusaku Endo

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The 47 Ronin Story by John Allyn

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Standalones

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Cassandra by Christa Wolf

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Brida by Paulo Coelho

City of Bones by Martha Wells

Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

The Zahir by Paulo Coelho

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fall of Numenor by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino

Cain by Jose Saramago

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

Bunny by Mona Awad

Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh

Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso

Medusa by Jessie Burton

When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East by Quan Barry

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

Horses of Fire by A.D. Rhine

Series

The World of Howl

Castle in the Air by Diana Wynn Jones

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynn Jones

A Song of Ice and Fire

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

Hunter x Hunter

Hunter x Hunter vol. 19 by Yoshimiro Togishi

Nervous Conditions

The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Wayfarers

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

The Cemeteries of Amalo

The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

Murderbot

Network Effect by Martha Wells

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

System Collapse by Martha Wells

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Alrights, that's it for today! Are there any books on this list that should be at the top of my TBR? Let me know in the comments, or DM me on Instagram (link in sidebar under the heading "More Media").

Until next time, friends!