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.
- 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 Hitchens, 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, 2025. Independent publication. (A great overview of the OceanGate disaster of 2023, which captured my attention as a lifelong Titanic buff.)
- 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 (A mildly outdated but still remarkably thorough introduction to the art of auditing.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.
- 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, in progress.
- How to Read a Book, revised edition, Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, 1972. Simon & Schuster. (Quite possibly the best guide there is on how to read critically.). Started August 9, 2025, in progress.
- A First Course in Differential Equations, 3rd edition, J. David Logan, 2015. Springer-Verlag. Started July 4, 2025, in progress.
- The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andrić (trans. Lovett Edwards), 1946. Grafički atelje Dereta. Started August 19, 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, in progress.