2025 Reading List.

Books read of 2025.

January

• Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas

  By Kay Bailey Hutchison

• Mike Wallace: a life

  By Peter Rader

February

• Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards

  By Jan Reid

• The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

  By RuPaul

• The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

  By Kelly Bishop

March

• Texas Rising: The Epic True Story of the Lone Star Republic and the Rise of the Texas Rangers, 1836-1846

  By Stephen L. Moore

• Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories

  By Kelly Ripa

April

• Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine: Voices of Frontier Women

  Edited by Jo Ella Powell Exley

• Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

  By Lauren Graham

June

• It Happened in Texas (It Happened In Series)

  By James A. Crutchfield

• Forever Texas: Texas, The Way Those Who Lived It Wrote It

  Edited by Mike Blakely and Mary Elizabeth Goldman

July

• God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

  By Lawrence Wright (Audiobook)

• The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

  By Melinda French Gates (Audiobook)

• The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

  By Bessel van der Kolk M.D. (Audiobook)

• The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)

  By Gretchen Rubin

August

• Breathe: A Life in Flow

  By Rickson Gracie (Audiobook)

September

• We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

  By Simu Liu (Audiobook)

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

  By Jocko Willink and Leif Babin (Audiobook)

October

• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

  By Matthew Perry

• Leadership: In Turbulent Times

  By Doris Kearns Goodwin (Audiobook)

December

• Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir

  By Colton Haynes (Audiobook)

• Then Again

  By Diane Keaton (Audiobook)