I recently rummaged through some old blog posts and found this literary meme. After a gap of over a decade, I’m giving it another go. Literature was my refuge in 2025, so I’m hoping this will be easy …
THE RULES: Using only books you have read this year, answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title.
Describe yourself: Determined by Robert Sapolsky
How do you feel: Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz
Describe where you currently live: The Age of Uncertainty by David Spiegelhalter
If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Best of All Possible Worlds by Michael Kempe
Your favourite form of transportation: Wandering Through Life by Donna Leon
Your best friend is: Good Prose by Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd
You and your friends are: Free Agents by Kevin Mitchell
What’s the weather like: A Dry Spell by Clare Chambers
You fear: Monoculture by F S Michaels
What is the best advice you have to give: No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit
Thought for the day: We Are Free to Change the World by Lyndsey Stonebridge
How I would like to die: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
My soul’s present condition: Transient and Strange by Nell Greenfieldboyce
Well, that wasn’t too difficult. The answers are mostly philosophical, which very much reflects what I read over the year. I finished 170 books, which is a lot, even for me. I stopped reading the news, ignored social media, and watched very little telly.
You can see my responses from previous years by working backwards from 2014.
Wishing you a happy, healthy, and book-filled 2026 📚