Here’s my 2025 list of books I’ve read and movies I’ve watched, with my rating of how much I liked it in parentheses (out of 10).

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Books

• Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin (8.5)
• The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See (9)
• Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (8)
• The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (8.5)
• The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (8)
• The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan (8)
• Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen (7)
• On Gold Mountain by Lisa See (8.5)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford (9)
• The Lotus Shoes: A Novel by Jane Yang (8.5)
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within: A Novel by Becky Chambers (9.5)
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (7)

See my current reading list at GoodReads, or my 2025 Year in Books.

Movies and Dorama

• Cunk on Life (8)
• Natsumi’s Firefly / 夏美のホタル (7)
• Pocahontas (6.5)
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew S01 (8)
• Dr. Coto’s Clinic Season 2 (7)
• Dr. Coto’s Clinic (2022) (6.5)