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
- Dark Heir
- The Christmas Swap
- It's a Fabulous Life
- Say Nothing
- The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
- Orbital
- Under the Mistletoe with You
- The Leftovers
- The Tainted Cup
- The Fireborne Blade
- Saint
- The Ministry of Time
- The River Has Roots
- A Gentleman's Gentleman
- Provoked
- The Book Censor's Library
- Copper Script
- Beguiled
- Enlightened
- The Spy and the Traitor
- Sorcery and Small Magics
- On the Hippie Trail
- The History of Sound
- Florenzer
- Empire of Ivory
- Victory of Eagles
- Back After This
- Tongues of Serpents
- The Englishman's Daughter
- Crucible of Gold
- Blood of Tyrants
- League of Dragons
- Golden Age
- Katabasis
- The Summer War
- The Gentleman and His Vowsmith
- Hamnet
- Agent Sonya
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
- A Physical Education
- The Uncommon Reader
- The Will of the Many
- Automatic Noodle
- All of Us Murderers
- It Was Her House First
- A Star is Scorned
- Honey Trap
- The Larks Still Bravely Singing
- Deck the Halls with Secret Agents
- Fall into You
- A Touch of Christmas Magic
- Recipe for Trouble
- The Power Broker
- Wrecked for the Holidays
- Subbing for Christmas
- Look Up, Handsome
- The Song of Achilles
- Tic-Tac-Mistletoe
- Hashtag Holidate
- All is Bright
- Ninth House
- Hell Bent
- Cruel Winter With You
- Cut to the Feeling
- The Charm Offensive
- In Memoriam
- Mr Collins in Love
- The Husbands
- Lessons in Magic and Disaster
- Guards! Guards!
- Men at Arms
- All the Seas of the World
- Written on the Dark
- A Restless Truth
- A Power Unbound
- Nicked
- Winter's Orbit
- Cinder House
- Last Call
- Meet Me in the Bathroom
- The Horse's Mouth
- The Magician of Tiger Castle
- A Memoir of My Former Self
- Wayfaring Strangers
- Glorious Exploits
- Hemlock & Silver
- Our Evenings
- The Silence of the Lambs
- A Spy Among Friends
- Enlightenment
- Forged in Hell
- House of Government
- Manhunt
- Flying Solo
- A Place of Greater Safety
- The Paris Apartment
- The Everlasting
- The Duke Who Didn't
- The Prisoner's Throne
- The National Team
- The Lilac People
- Rogue Heroes
- Most Ardently
- A World Worth Saving
- Swordcrossed
- Hither, Page
- Cloud Atlas
- Benefit
- River-Horse
- Unravel the Dark
- The Hands of the Emperor
- Empires of the Word
- A Natural
- The Quantum Thief
- The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
- A History of What Comes Next
- The Moor's Last Sigh
- Vinegar Girl
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- Babel
- Spoiler Alert
- The Wager
- Niccolo Rising
- Supergods
- Press Reset
- Down the Nile
- Gotham Writers' Workshop Writing Fiction
- Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
- The Starless Sea
- I Leave it Up to You
- A Discovery of Witches
- The Bell in the Fog
- Yes Please
- Last Night of the Telegraph Club
- The Black Company
- Double Cross
- The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
- Mike Nichols: A Life
- The Priory of the Orange Tree
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- Prophet
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
- Hagseed
- Redshirts
- Health at Every Size
- David Bowie Made Me Gay
- The Three-Body Problem
- Freed by Flame and Storm
- The Pacific Circuit
- My Body
- The Infinite Noise
- Woodworking
- The Steerswoman's Road
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- A Shadow Intelligence
- Rejection
- The Last Devil to Die
- Fellow Travelers
- Witchmark
- The Unspoken Name
- The Marquis Who Mustn't
- The Warrior Heir
- Pictures at a Revolution
- Jane, Unlimited
- Making Movies
- Three Parts Dead
- Station Eleven
- Demoting Vishnu
- The Story of England
- Tooth and Claw
- Ravenna
- The Emperor's Blades
- Swordspoint
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- A Shore Thing
- Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
- A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
- Together We Burn
- Empress of the East
- Funny Girl
- The Tiger's Daughter
- The Scottish Boy
- Long Live Evil
- Why I Cook
- Time and Tide
- The Appeal
- Five Points
- Down Girl
- The City of Brass
- Brideshead Revisited
- I Capture the Castle
- The Widow Queen
- Gardens of the Moon
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- "More"
- The King's Man
- The Office of Historical Corrections
- A Sorceress Comes to Call
- Red Sea Under Red Sky
- A Darker Shade of Magic
- The Blind Dragon
- Mo Dao Zu Shi
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
- Better Than Before
- The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
- Eve of Darkness
- The Alloy of Law
- The Space Between Worlds
- Stargazy Pie
- Bee Sting Cake
- Autonomous
- Operation Mincemeat
- The Necessary Beggar
- Trickster's Choice
- The Honey Witch
- Remix
- Good and Mad
- Kushiel's Dart
- Bitter Medicine
- Just Like You
- Invincible
- The Grace of Kings
- The Magicians
- Impossible Owls
- At Swim, Two Boys
- Giovanni's Room
- Light From Uncommon Stars
- The Power
- Sunshine
- From Football to Soccer
- Here, There be Dragons
- Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
- A Shadow in Summer
- Witch King
- Empire of the Steppes
- The Letters of Noel Coward
- The Vagina Bible
- All the Birds in the Sky
- The Bright Sword
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant
- New Spring
- Middlegame
- Das Reboot
- Mama's Boy
- Madly, Deeply
- Spellbound
- Truthwitch
- All the Feels
- Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
- Why We Swim
- Big Friendship
- Gift Horses
- The Sparsholt Affair
- Death in the Spires
- Harrow the Ninth
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