These Books Got Me Through 2025 | The Deep
Description
Erika looks back on everything she read in 2025 – American history, satire, murder mysteries, and children’s classics—while juggling motherhood, work, and ten-minute reading windows. This year-end book roundup considers what our reading habits reveal about attention, endurance, and staying human in a distracted age.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:33 - The Civil War: A Narrative — Shelby Foote
2:57 - Jayber Crowe — Wendell Berry
4:28 - Martyrs of the 20th Century — Robert Royal
4:59 - Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West — Hampton Sides
5:55 - Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather
6:32 - Dominion — Tom Holland
7:37 - Scoop — Evelyn Waugh
8:42 - Tiger in the Smoke — Margery Allingham
9:14 - Against the Machine — Paul Kingsnorth
11:07 - Advent Homilies — John Henry Newman
11:40 - Children’s Books (Rapid-Fire)
12:59 - Conclusion
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