Today’s TTT is “Top Ten Bookish Discoveries Made in 2025”, which is not a topic I feel confident I’ll be able to fulfill, but we shall see. First up, the Teaser Tuesday.

Abigail [Adams’] biting words only prompted John Quincy to come to [his fiancée] Louisa’s defense. He and he alone, he responded, must be accountable for his choice of a wife. If he waited until his mother approved of his selection, he would certainly be doomed to perpetual celibacy. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

(1) The delight of game warden stories. CJ Box’s Joe Pickett series consumed my reading for 2.5. months and led to not only another game warden series, but to game warden nonfiction. CJ Box is a proper menace.

(2) I’m getting to be a bad Star Trek fan. Not only did I only read two ST novels last year, but I didn’t even finish watching the long-awaited season 3 of Strange New Worlds. I am slowly remedying that: I am halfway through.

(3) 2025 would be remembered as the year of Paul Kingsnorth (an ecological/social critic who is also an Orthodox mystic who lives on an off-grid farm) were it not for my CJ Box obsession. I read through all of Paul’s nonfiction works in 2025, including his most recent release and alleged magnum opus, Against the Machine.

(4) Donald Honig as a baseball historian. I’ve read three of his books detailing baseball from the 1920s to the 1950s.

(5) A YA novel series I read in high school is a lot ‘spicier’ than anything I’ve read as an adult.

(6) Most of James Gandolfini’s filmography, thanks to a biography I read of him, Gandolfini. I watched as many of his movies as I could find last year.

(7) Bell Irwin Wiley as a Civil War social historian. I’d read Wiley before but really got into his works back in 2025.

(8) James McPherson and his Battle Cry of Freedom really live up to expectations.

(9) HARRY POTTER FULL CAST AUDIO EDITIONS ARE AS WONDERFUL AS CHOCOLATE FROGS. I listened to one in December and two this month; I intend to listen to the rest as they come out. Yes, I’ve read the series multiple times; yes, I’ve watched the movies multiple times; yes, I’ve listened to Jim Dale and Stephen Fry both read audio books of the series; yes, I’ve watched CallMeKevin play all the games (a bean!!). It doesn’t matter, I love these productions.

(10) Dead presidents. So…..finding an interesting chap on youtube led to my dormant Civil War obsession from high school being reignited, which led to me reading about the prelude to the Civil War, leading to me reading a lot about the presidents from the 1830s to the 1850s, leading to me reading antebellum history for one, two, three months now. Ah hah hah.