{"id":2139,"date":"2026-01-07T12:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:22:32","slug":"books-i-read-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2026\/01\/books-i-read-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I read in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have to admit that I was really lazy this summer so I spent a lot of time reading throughout the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Big One: How To Prepare for World-Altering Pandemics to Come<\/strong> &#8211; Michael T. Osterholm &#8211; I&#8217;d recommend this to everyone who lived through the COVID pandemic but I know about half of them wouldn&#8217;t believe anything in the book.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Watchers <\/strong>&#8211; Dean Koontz <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Funhouse<\/strong> &#8211; Dean Koontz &#8211; This is an adaptation of the Tobe Hooper film but it&#8217;s really more like a prequel to the events of the movie which are only covered in the last third of the book.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carl&#8217;s Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2) &#8211; Matt Dinniman &#8211; There are a bunch of these but I had to take a break after the 2nd one because the first-person persepctive kinda makes me crazy. I&#8217;ll definitely keep going with the series in 2026, though.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)<\/strong> &#8211; Matt Dinniman &#8211; Fun story with an angle that I&#8217;ve never read before.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Making of Stanley Kubrick\u2019s &#8216;2001: A Space Odyssey&#8217; &#8211; Piers Bizony<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space (Terran Trade Authority Handbook) &#8211; Stewart Cowley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4) &#8211; Stephen King &#8211; Is this really the end of the Holly books?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pilot&#8217;s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25A (FAA Handbooks)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Measure<\/strong> &#8211; Nikki Erlick<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Mountain in the Sea &#8211; Ray Nayler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Road<\/strong> &#8211; Cormac McCarthy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Every Life a Story: Natalie Jacobson Reporting &#8211; The autobiography of &#8220;Channel 5&#8221; anchor Natalie Jacobson who is a major celebrity in New England.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Japanese Swords and Armor: Masterpieces from Thirty of Japan&#8217;s Most Famous Samurai Warriors &#8211; Paul Martin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond<\/strong> &#8211; Gene Kranz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sleeping Beauties &#8211; Stephen King<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Into the Black<\/strong>: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her &#8211; Rowland White &#8211; I will never tire of reading well-written books about space exploration!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I was really lazy this summer so I spent a lot of time reading throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about_me","category-reading_list","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}