The below are the books that I have finished in 2025. They aren’t sorted in any particular order and cover every genre that I may possibly touch, from expository nonfiction to classic literature. Some of the works here have brief descriptions or reactions. The below graph should automatically update with new readings. Ctrl+Shift+R (PC) or Opt+Cmd+R (Mac) should make this refresh.
- Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 2nd edition, Gilbert Strang, 1980. Academic Press. Completed on January 21, 2025.
- Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure (Roy Harris, trans.), 1972 (1983 trans.). Open Court. Completed on April 21, 2025.
- The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the Unsinkable Ship—Titanic, revised edition, Walter Lord, 1998. Open Road Integrated Media. Completed in April 2025.
- The Man who Sank Titanic: The Troubled Life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens, Sally Nilsson, 2011. The History Press. Completed in April 2025.
- Intermediate Accounting, 6th edition, David Spiceland, Jim Sepe, and Mark Nelson, 2011. McGraw-Hill Irwin. (A colossal read but a foundational one for the aspiring accountant. I found it preferable to the comparatively drier treatment of Kieso et al.) Completed on May 31, 2025.
- To the Titanic and Back 13-1/2 Times, Gordon Telepun, M.D., 2025. Independent publication. (A great overview of the OceanGate disaster of 2023, which captured my attention as a lifelong Titanic buff. Pairs tremendously well with the official findings of the Coast Guard investigation that were released in August.)
- Medical Record Auditor, 4th edition, Deborah J. Grider, 2015. American Medical Association Press. (A mildly outdated but still remarkably thorough introduction to the art of auditing. This is what I do for a living and I needed a refresher when I started the job in April.) Completed on June 26, 2025.
- Conflict Management: A Communication Skills Approach, 2nd edition, Deborah Borisoff and David Victor, 1998. Allyn & Bacon. Completed July 17, 2025.
- Principles of Corporate Finance, 10th edition, Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen, 2010. Irwin McGraw Hill. Completed July 18, 2025.
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, 1891. Wordsworth Editions’ critical edition with footnotes and secondary sources in one volume. (My first piece of literary fiction in almost 20 years. A challenging, depressing read but one that I enjoyed very much.) Started August 7, 2025, completed August 17, 2025.
- The Art of Winning, Bill Belichick, 2025. Avid Reader Press. Started August 9, 2025, finished August 27, 2025.
- A First Course in Differential Equations, 3rd edition, J. David Logan, 2015. Springer-Verlag. Started July 4, 2025, in progress.
- Report of the Marine Board of Investigation into the Implosion of the Submersible TITAN, U.S. Coast Guard, 2025. Published directly by the USCG. Started August 20, 2025, finished August 26, 2025.
- Dans les profondeurs du Titanic, Paul-Henri Nargeolet (in French), 2022. (Recollections of the underwater explorer who dived on the RMS Titanic wreck site more than any other person. Nargeolet perished in the Titan submersible implosion in 2023.) Harper-Collins France. Started August 24, 2025, finished August 27, 2025.
- On a Sea of Glass, Tad Fitch, Kent Layton, and Bill Wormstedt, 2015. Amberley Publishing. (An encyclopedic history of the design, construction, and loss of the famous vessel RMS Titanic.) Started August 24, 2025, completed September 6, 2025.
- Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, Edward P.J. Corbett, 1965. Oxford University Press. Started August 29, 2025, in progress.
- Poems of the Past and the Present, Thomas Hardy, 1902. Apple Books. Started August 26, 2025, in progress.
- The Republic, Plato, ca. 380 BCE. Translated by Benjamin Jowett, Arcturus Books. Started September 13, 2025, in progress.