2025 Books & Films

Goal: To read 50 books and watch 50 films that I have not read or watched before.
Fifty-Fifty challenge for 2026

Books

Tracked on GoodReads and StoryGraph

  1. The Villa
  2. Fourth Wing
  3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  4. Around the World in 80 Days
  5. Chain Gang All-Stars
  6. Horrorstör
  7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  8. Klara and the Sun
  9. A Daughter of Fair Verona
  10. I Hope This Finds You Well
  11. Before We Were Yours
  12. We Begin at the End
  13. Parable of the Sower
  14. The Women
  15. The Night Circus
  16. Holly
  17. Hercule Poirot's Christmas
  18. The Institute
  19. Crying in H Mart
  20. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
  21. Iron Flame
  22. Mr. Mercedes
  23. Finders Keepers
  24. The Art Thief
  25. End of Watch
  26. Such a Fun Age
  27. The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
  28. Origin
  29. Station Eleven
  30. A Beautiful Blue Death
  31. Prince Caspian
  32. The In-Between
  33. The September Society
  34. The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
  35. James
  36. The Berry Pickers
  37. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  38. The Silver Chair
  39. All the Colors of the Dark
  40. The Horse and His Boy
  41. Book of Night
  42. The Magician's Nephew
  43. The Last Battle
  44. Death at the Sign of the Rook
  45. The Fleet Street Murders
  46. The Warmth of Other Suns
  47. The Lost Painting
  48. True Story: Murder, Memoire, Mea Culpa
  49. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
  50. All Quiet on the Western Front
  51. Fairy Tale
  52. Rebecca
  53. Sunrise on the Reaping
  54. The Ministry of Time
  55. I Leave It Up To You
  56. Heartwood
  57. Leviathan Wakes
  58. The Third Gilmore Girl
  59. Onyx Storm
  60. The Fury
  61. North Woods
  62. One of Us is Dead
  63. The Long Walk
  64. Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
  65. Tom Lake
  66. The Day the World Came to Town
  67. What Does It Feel Like?
  68. How to Solve Your Own Murder
  69. Prophet Song
  70. The Persians
  71. Small Things Like These
  72. Where Sleeping Girls Lie
  73. The Other Wife
  74. Taste: My Life Through Food
  75. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
  76. The Murder at the Vicarage
  77. The Grand Paloma Resort
  78. Homegoing
  79. 6:40 to Montreal
  80. The Bletchly Riddle
  81. The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
  82. The Gunslinger
  83. Murder by Memory
  84. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Films

  1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  2. Charade (1963)
  3. Past Lives (2023)
  4. The Zone of Interest (2023)
  5. American Fiction (2023)
  6. IF (2024)
  7. The Substance (2024)
  8. Conclave (2024)
  9. The Fast and the Furious (2001)
  10. A Real Pain (2024)
  11. Emilia Pérez (2024)
  12. The Wild Robot (2024)
  13. Threads (1984)
  14. Moana 2 (2024)
  15. Pride & Prejudice (2005)
  16. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
  17. Maggie (2015)
  18. Anora (2024)
  19. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
  20. Wicked - Part 1 (2024)
  21. A Complete Unknown (2024)
  22. Twisters (2024)
  23. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
  24. The Fall Guy (2024)
  25. The Brutalist (2024)
  26. Sinners (2025)
  27. True Story (2015)
  28. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
  29. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
  30. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023)
  31. Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning (2025)
  32. Nickel Boys (2024)
  33. Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
  34. Rebecca (1940)
  35. I'm Still Here (2024)
  36. The Big Lebowski (1998)
  37. Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
  38. A Minecraft Movie (2025)
  39. Shark Whisperer (2025)
  40. My Octopus Teacher (2020)
  41. The Running Man (1987)
  42. The Secret of Kells (2009)
  43. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
  44. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
  45. Loving Vincent (2017)
  46. Endless Night (1972)
  47. Marty (1955)
  48. Remember Me, Mommy?* (2020)
  49. Revenge for Daddy* (2020)
  50. Titanic II* (2010)
  51. Tron (1982)
  52. Tron Legacy (2010)
  53. Death on the Nile (1978)
  54. Wuthering Heights (1939)
  55. A Woman's Face (1938)
  56. The Last House on the Left (2009)
  57. Trap (2024)
  58. Mary of Scotland (1936)
  59. A Civil Action (1998)
  60. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
  61. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
  62. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
  63. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  64. I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
  65. The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025)
  66. M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
  67. Anyone But You (2025)
  68. Weapons (2025)
  69. Tenet (2020)
  70. Predator (1987)
  71. Frankenstein (2025)
  72. Wake Up, Dead Man (2025)
  73. Holiday Affair (1949)
  74. A Christmas Carol (1938)
  75. The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
  76. The Hunger Games (But Better) - A Parody (2025)

* If you count Lifetime movies and direct-to-video mockbusters as "films"