Somehow it is 2025, and this will be my tenth year of maintaining this book blog. I truly do not know how the time has passed, but that's the nature of the game, I guess.
Last year I read the fewest books since 2017, when I somehow only managed to read 12 books all year. I would like to do better than that this year, and better than the 26 I read in 2024, although I do have a good sense of why I didn't have a ton of time or focus for reading. Last year I watched many many movies, and a fair amount of television, and also I got distracted by events of the world, for better or for worse. And this year I would like to at least try to find the pleasure in reading again, and in building out a TBR pile that makes me excited and doesn't make me feel burdened. I think I have a good handle on that right now, but we'll see. As is my standard, I have more books to start this year than I did at the beginning of 2024, but let's see how I can do. I'd like to read more books I love this year, which probably means I need to be more ruthless about giving up on a book when I know it won't be one I love. I would also like to reread more books this year as well. Here's hoping.
2025 list is below!
- Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
- The Jolliest Bunch
- Make the Season Bright
- The Stolen Heir
- The Prisoner's Throne
- The Christmas Swap
- It's a Fabulous Life
- Say Nothing
- The Space Between Worlds
- Winter's Orbit
- The Unspoken Name
- The Duke Who Didn't
- The Marquis Who Mustn't
- Prophet
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
- The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
- Orbital
- Time and Tide
- Most Ardently
- A World Worth Saving
- A Sorceress Comes to Call
- Manhunt
- A Shore Thing
- The Power Broker
- Pictures at a Revolution
- Station Eleven
- The Paris Apartment
- Five Points
- A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
- Truthwitch
- Eve of Darkness
- The Vagina Bible
- Redshirts
- Tooth and Claw
- The Scottish Boy
- Spellbound
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant
- The Tiger's Daughter
- Unravel the Dark
- Harrow the Ninth
- The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
- The Office of Historical Corrections
- Fellow Travelers
- Empress of the East
- New Spring
- Autonomous
- Witchmark
- The Necessary Beggar
- Mama's Boy
- The National Team
- The King's Man
- The Emperor's Blades
- Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
- A Darker Shade of Magic
- The Black Company
- Impossible Owls
- Good and Mad
- All the Birds in the Sky
- A Shadow in Summer
- The Quantum Thief
- The City of Brass
- Niccolo Rising
- A Natural
- The Power
- Freed by Flame and Storm
- Vinegar Girl
- Hagseed
- Red Sea Under Red Sky
- The Priory of the Orange Tree
- Gardens of the Moon
- The Grace of Kings
- The Infinite Noise
- Sunshine
- Just Like You
- Empires of the Word
- Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
- The Blind Dragon
- Health at Every Size
- Remix
- The Story of England
- Gotham Writers' Workshop Writing Fiction
- The Letters of Noel Coward
- Demoting Vishnu
- Yes Please
- Supergods
- Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
- Kushiel's Dart
- Jane, Unlimited
- Das Reboot
- Invincible
- The Song of Achilles
- Down Girl
- At Swim, Two Boys
- Swordspoint
- Three Parts Dead
- Here, There be Dragons
- "More"
- The Warrior Heir
- Funny Girl
- I Capture the Castle
- A Discovery of Witches
- The Magicians
- The Steerswoman's Road
- The Moor's Last Sigh
- The Starless Sea
- Trickster's Choice
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- The Hands of the Emperor
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Cloud Atlas
- All the Feels
- My Body
- From Football to Soccer
- River-Horse
- Mo Dao Zu Shi
- All the Seas of the World
- Big Friendship
- Why We Swim
- Mike Nichols: A Life
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- Last Night of the Telegraph Club
- The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
- A Desolation Called Peace
- Middlegame
- Hither, Page
- Press Reset
- A History of What Comes Next
- Light From Uncommon Stars
- The Alloy of Law
- Stargazy Pie
- Bee Sting Cake
- Flying Solo
- Babel
- Spoiler Alert
- The Wager
- A Restless Truth
- A Power Unbound
- Bitter Medicine
- Dark Heir
- Ninth House
- Hell Bent
- The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
- Empire of the Steppes
- The Bell in the Fog
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Witch King
- Down the Nile
- Better Than Before
- Brideshead Revisited
- Under the Mistletoe with You
- The Leftovers
- David Bowie Made Me Gay
- Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
- Guards! Guards!
- Men at Arms
- Long Live Evil
- The Honey Witch
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
- Swordcrossed
- The Tainted Cup
- The Fireborne Blade
- Why I Cook
- Giovanni's Room
- Woodworking
- Saint
- The Ministry of Time
- The River Has Roots
- A Gentleman's Gentleman
- Provoked
- The Book Censor's Library
- Copper Script
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