2025 Reading Challenge discussion

like the past year, I plan to read 1 book for each year of life (this year I'll be 53). Between work, kids, etc. this is always just slightly more challenging than I always think. I don't choose the books ahead of time since I like to keep up with new and old fiction and nonfiction. May try some of the topic-based challenges but leave room for my own choices. Genres tend toward science fiction, literary fiction, mysteries and geopolitics but I'm really open to almost anything.

January:
1. The Peripheral - William Gibson
2. The Book of Strange New Things - Michael Faber
3. The Next Decade - George Friedman
4. The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
5. The Strange Library - Haruki Murakami