Amazon Books 2025

see also the 2024 list and 2023 and 2022

Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir Craig Mod 1i25

Goodbye to All That Robert Graves 1i25

Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society Howard Rheingold 1i25

Spina Americana Richard Sharum 5i25

The Maginot Line: A New History Kevin Passamore 7i25

Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac Anka Muhlstein 7i25

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night Jón Kalman Stefánsson Audible and Kindle 11i25

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 12i25

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life Dan Nadel Kindle 15i25

Historical Atlas Of The Islamic World David Nicolle 18i25

An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days Maria Popova 20i25

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Charles C Mann Kindle 22i25

The World After Gaza: A History Pankaj Mishra Kindle 23i25

The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk Audible 23i25

My Own Country: A Doctor's Story Abraham Verghese 25i25

Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner 26i25

Lexicon Max Barry Kindle 26i25

No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood Audible 27i25

Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design Steven Heller 28i25

Twelve Tomorrows 2014 Technology Review and Bruce Sterling 30i25

New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society Tony Bennett et al. 31i25

Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data Nanna Bonde Thylstrup et al. 31i25

Culture and Society: 1780-1950 Raymond Williams 1ii25

Empire of Words John Willinsky 2ii25

English as She Is Wrote: Showing Curious Ways in Which the English Language May Be Made to Convey Ideas or Obscure Them A Companion to "English as She Is Spoke" anon. 2ii25

Watership Down Richard Adams Audible 2ii25

Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Stephen Fry Audible 2ii25

The People of the Sierra Julian Pitt-Rivers 3ii25

The Lexicon: An Introduction Elisabetta Jezek Kindle 3ii25

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language Gretchen McCulloch 4ii25

Decoding Gen-Z Slang: Your Guide to Learning, Understanding, and Speaking the Gen-Z Vernacular (Slanguage: The Vocabulary You Never Wanted) Devon Knott Kindle 4ii25

Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America John McWhorter 5ii25

Mental Floss: The Curious Compendium of Wonderful Words: A Miscellany of Obscure Terms, Bizarre Phrases & Surprising Etymologies Erin McCarthy 5ii25

The Great Book of American Idiom: A Dictionary of American Idioms, Sayings, Expressions & Phrases Lingo Mastery 5ii25

The Eyes and the Impossible Dave Eggers 5ii25

Stomp Off, Let's Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong Ricky Riccardi Kindle 5ii25

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left Eoin Higgins Kindle 7ii25

Farthing: A Story of a World that Could Have Been Jo Walton Kindle 8ii25

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries Kory Stamper 11ii25

Memes in Digital Culture Limor shifman 11ii25

The Meme Machine Susan Blackmore 11ii25

Moments of Being Virginia Woolf 12ii25

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride Audible 12ii25 Kindle 15ii25

Minor White, Memorable Fancies 13ii25

Antonio Garcia Martinez 13ii25

Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon Jean Aitchison 14ii25

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction David George Haskell 14ii25

The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories Saki 14ii25

Geo. Herriman's KRAZY + IGNATZ the complete Kat Komics Volumes 1-9 (1916-1924) 14ii25

An Introduction to English Lexicology: Words, Meaning and Vocabulary Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela Kindle 14ii25

Complete Works of Saki Saki Kindle 14ii25

Reginald Saki Kindle 14ii25

Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic Isabella Cosse 15ii25

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Kindle Edition Adam Hochschild Kindle 18ii25

A Dictionary of Victorian Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: From the Underworld and Elsewhere John Camden Hotten Kindle 18ii25

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Francis Grose Kindle 18ii25

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language David Crystal 20ii25

Mafalda & Friends Quino 20ii25

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World David Van Reybrouck 22ii25

From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey Edward Gorey 22ii25

Daido Moriyama: Record 2 Mark Holborn 24ii25

Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success Allan Metcalf 25ii25

The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases Anna Farkas 25ii25

Colonial American English, a Glossary: Words and Phrases Found in Colonial Writing, Now Archaic, Obscure, Obsolete, or Whose Meanings Have Changed Richard M Lederer 25ii25

Here, There Be Dragons James A Owen 26ii25

Souls of Animals Gary Kowalski 1iii25

Cry When the Baby Cries Becky Barnacoat 1iii25

Dictionary of Received Ideas Gustave Flaubert Kindle 4iii25

The Dictionary of Clichés: A Word Lover's Guide to 4,000 Overused Phrases and Almost-Pleasing Platitudes Christine Ammer 7iii25

Cliches and Platitudes for All Occasions Knock Knock 7iii25

Key Debates in Anthropology Tim Ingold 8iii25

English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States Rosina Lippi-Green 8iii25

Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition S I Hayakawa 9iii25

Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food Chris van Tulleken Kindler 9iii25

The Disbeliever's Dictionary: A Gleefully Disrespectful Lexicon of Canada Today Brian Fawcett [1997] 11iii25

The Glamour Christopher Priest Kindle 12iii25

The Hornblower Companion CS Forester and Samuel H Bryant 13iii25

The Bedeviled Dictionary: A Lexicon of Wicked Wordplay LK Peterson and Martin Kozlowski 15iii25

The Liar's Dictionary Eley Williams Audible 18iii25

Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World Ella Frances Saunders 22iii25

The Middle-Class Gentleman Molière Kindle 22iii25

The Price of Dormice Steve Lunn Kindle 24iii25

Underworlds: A Compelling Journey Through Subterranean Realms, Real and Imagined Stephen Ellcock 26iii25

Elements: Chaos, order and the five elemental forces Stephen Ellcock 26iii25

Crash Blossoms, Eggcorns, Mondegreens & Mountweazels: 101 Terms About Language That You Didn't Know You Needed Mike Pope 25iii25

The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years Ulbe Bosma 26iii25

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture Johan Huizinga Kindle 28iii25

The Colony Annika Norlin Kindle 2iv25

World in Depression, 1929-1939 Charles B Kindleberger 7iv25

Mills and Factories of New England Serge Hambourg 13iv25

Mapping Boston Alex Krieger and David Cobb 27iv25

The Atlas of Boston History Nancy S Seasholes 27iv25

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart Nicholas Carr Kindle and Audiobook 28iv25

Our City That Year Geetanjali Shree Kindle 28iv25

World in Depression, 1929–1939 Charles P Kindleberger 7iv25 [1973]

Mills and Factories of New England Serge Hambourg 13iv25 [1988]

Mapping Boston Alex Krieger et al. 27iv25 [1999]

Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art Developed from Philosophy in a New Key Susanne K Langer 10v25 [1953]

All Good Things: A Treasury of Images to Uplift the Spirits and Reawaken Wonder Stephen Ellcock 10v25 [2019] and Kindle ...Book Goblin... replacing hard cover given to Wende

The Odyssey Homer; Daniel Mendelsohn translation 10v25 Kindle

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Sarah Bakewell 14v25 [2011] ...Book Goblin....

Timothy Snyder 18v25 [2021] replacing the one given to Kippy

Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses Don Gifford 20v25 [1988]

Designing Freedom (The CBC Massey Lectures) Stafford Beer 21v25 Kindle [1993]

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic Daniel Mendelsohn 23v25 [2017]

Heart Lamp: Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize Banu Mustaq 23v25 Kindle

Is Peace Possible? Kathleen Lonsdale 24v25 [1957]

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed James C Scott 25v25 Kindle

The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination Adam Zeman 29v25

A Psalm for the Wild-Built: Monk & Robot, Book 1 Becky Chambers 30v25 Audible

The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks 2vi25 Kindle [2017]

The P{hantom Toolbooth Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer 3vi25 [1965?]

The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History Thor Hanson 3vi25 Audible

The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick 3vi25 Kindle

Beans: A History Ken Albala 7vi25 [2017] ...Book Goblin again... adds Kindle 3vi25

Abscond: A Short Story Abraham Verghese 6vi25 Kindle

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance Robert N. Proctor (Editor), Londa Schiebinger (Editor) 8vi25 [2008] *Print On Demand

Killosophy Criss Jami 8vi25 [2015] *Print On Demand

Nuts: A Global History Ken Albala 8vi25 [2014]

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading Nadia Asparouhova 8vi25 Kindle

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global Laura Spinney 8vi25 Kindle and Audible

New Objectivity Olaf Peters 9vi25 [2025]

The Food History Reader: Primary Sources Ken Albala 10vi25 [2014]

Ornamental Lettering: An Archive of Decorative Initials, Calligraphy, and Vintage Alphabets for Lettering Artists and Typographers Kale James 16vi25

Box-Making Basics: Design, Technique, Projects David M Freedman [1997] 19vii25

Tauntons Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making Doug Stowe 19vi25

Persepolis: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Persian Empire's Capital City Charles River Editors [2016] 19vi25 Kindle

Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet John McWhorter [2023] 21vi25 Audible

1974: A Personal History Fran cine Prowse Kindle and Audible 22vi25

The Atlas of a Changing Climate: Our Evolving Planet Visualized with More Than 100 Maps, Charts, and Infographics Brian Buma [2021] 22vi25

The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge Kirstin Dow [2011] 22vi25

A Historical Atlas of Iran Fred Ramen [2003] 22vi25

Tokyo Ueno Station Yu Min [2021] 22vi25 and Audible

Indo-European Cognate Dictionary Fiona McPherson [2018] 22vi25 Kindle

Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times Amitav Ghosh [2007] 22vi25 Kindle

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past David Reich [2018] 23vi25

Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu Marcia and Robert Ascher [1997] 25vi25

Quipus and Witches' Knots: The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Culture, with a Translation and Analysis of "Oribasius de Laqueis" Cyrus Lawrence Day [2023] 25vi25 Kindle

Anima: A Wild Pastoral Kapka Kassabova [2024] 27vi25

Technology: A World History Daniel R Headrick [2009] 27vi25

The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams 2vii25 and Audible

Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love Samin Nosrat 4vii25

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking Samin Nosrat 4vii25 Audible

Germaine Krull Michel Frizot 7vii25

The Bean Book Steve Sando 8vii25

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna 12vii25 Kindle

Service (Semiotext(e) John Tottenham 13vii25 Kindle

Maps and Dreams Hugh Brody 13vii25 [1982]

Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 14vii25

River of Smoke Amitav Ghosh 14vii25

Flood of Fire Amitav Ghosh 14vii25

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language Adsam Aleksic 14vii25 Kindle

Backroads Buildings: In Search of the Vernacular Steve Gross and Susan Daley 20vii25

The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them Robert Carroll 20vii25 Kindle (2013)

Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems Joanna Macy 22vii25 (1991)

A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm Stanley Crawford 25vii25 (1998)

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich 25vii25 Kindle (2009)

A Conventional Boy Charles Stross 28vii25 Kindle

The Rabbit Hole Book: 99 adventures into the history of stuff Richard Coles et al. 30vii25

Dark Academia: How Universities Die Peter Fleming 2viii25 Kindle

Figuring Maria Popova 2viii25 Audible (2019)

His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman's Trilogy Carole Scott et al. 6viii25 (2005)

How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature Marc Hamer 6viii25 Kindle

Gnomon Nick Harkaway 8viii25 Kindle

Six Memos for the Next Millennium Italo Calvino 9viii25 (2016)

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book Becky Chambers 16viii25 Kindle and Audible

Neither Wolf nor Dog 25th Anniversary Edition: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder Kent Nerburn 20viii25 (2019)

A Truce That Is Not Peace Miriam Toews 25viii25 Kindle

The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets Kara Newman 26viii25 (2012)

Birds Reference Book: An Image Archive for Artists and Designers Kale James 28viii25 (2022)

Art Work: On the Creative Life Sally Mann 28viii25

Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State Stephen G Bunker 28viii25 (1990)

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future Dan Wang 30viii25 Kindle

Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump GB Trudeau (2016) 31viii25

40: A Doonesbury Retrospective GB Trudeau (2010) 31viii25

Music: A Subversive History Ted Gioia (2019) Audible 1ix25