December 2025 Book Reading List

It’s the end of an era. After 8 years of doing monthly book reading lists, this will be my last.

My kids are getting more and more literate - meaning they can read on there own. My son loves to read. My daughter, who just turned 6, can read, and will hopefully pick up the joy of reading on her own soon.

Both still love to be read to - and, each December, my wife and I wrap 50 different “Christmas books” for them to unwrap - one book each per day on the days leading up to Christmas. Which means December is a month of more reading to my kids.

I read seven to my daughter:

• A Special Place for Santa
• Elmore the Christmas Moose
• If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
• The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear
• The Great Santa Stakeout
• The Grumpy Reindeer
• What Santa Can’t Do

And the 12 books to my son:

• A Christmas Too Big
• A Special Place for Santa
• Elmore the Christmas Moose
• If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
• The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear
• The Great Santa Stakeout
• The Grumpy Reindeer
• The Lost Gift
• The Slider Who Saved Christmas
• This is the Stable
• What Santa Can’t Do
• Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Now, I am not done reading myself. Indeed, in December, I finished two books: The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi and The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.

The Third Rule of Time Travel uses a form of time travel more akin to The Butterfly Effect - where one travels only within one’s own consciousness - although, in the case of The Third Rule of Time Travel, you can only observe.

The Anxious Generation is about how screen time is causing anxiety in today’s youth. Or really in everyone. But it also touches how lack of real-world interactions is also causing anxiety.

While this may be my last monthly book reading list, it won’t be the last time I write about what I read. Going forward, I plan on giving a quick blurb on whatever book I just finished, as I finished it. It won’t be a review - I don’t like giving star-ratings or saying it’s 10 out of ten or what have you - just my thoughts on the book itself. Hopefully having just read the book will leave it fresh in my mind for when I write.