BOOKS READ IN 2025

I read 254 books in 2025.

• My favorite read of the year was: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
• My favorite sci-fi (sortof) read of the year was: To Say Nothing of the Dog
• My favorite Fantasy read of the year was: Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
• My favorite uplit read of the year was: ok not really uplit but Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard
• My favorite nonfiction read of the year was: Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
• My favorite Historical Fiction read of the year was: The Frozen River
• My favorite Mystery read of the year was: The Death of Us
• My favorite Magical Realism read of this year was: The Listeners
• My favorite poetry read of this year was: Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson
• My favorite graphic novel read of the year was: It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

• Here are some other books I liked:
  • Heart the Lover
  • How the Light Gets In
  • Sipsworth
  • Go Gentle
  • Life: A Love Story
  • Lake Effect
  • The Peculiar Gift of July
  • The Briars
  • The First Time I Saw Him
  • Like Family
  • Immaculate Conception
  • How About Now: Poems
  • Lessons in Magic and Disaster
  • The Summer War
  • A Language of Limbs
  • The Unseen World
  • Things in Nature Merely Grow
  • I Know how this Ends
  • My Friends
  • The Tell
  • Wild Dark Shore
  • The Elements
  • Room 706
  • Flashlight
  • Hazel Says No
  • Culpability
  • The Devil’s Advocate
  • The Love Haters
  • The Heart of Winter
  • Beyond Anxiety
  • The Society of Unknowable Objects

Here are all the books I’ve read this year in reverse chronological order. You can see my goodreads reviews here

1. Enormous Wings
2. Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
3. Ode to the Half-Broken
4. Too Old for This
5. A Guardian and a Thief
6. Good Intentions
7. Every Version of You
8. King of Ashes
9. A Good Animal
10. The Death of Us
11. Wild Animal
12. Cherry Baby
13. Sipsworth
14. Go Gentle
15. The Midnight Knock
16. The Book Witch
17. Best Offer Wins
18. This Must Be the Place
19. Your Knife, My Heart (Dark Forces, #1)
20. The Buddha in the Attic
21. Two Kinds of Stranger (Eddie Flynn #9)
22. Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
23. Dead Money
24. Life: A Love Story
25. To Cage a Wild Bird
26. Lake Effect
27. My Husband’s Wife
28. Ghost Fish
29. Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11)
30. The Road to Tender Hearts
31. Gone Before Goodbye
32. Life, and Death, and Giants
33. Wreck
34. Count My Lies
35. The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake
36. I See You’ve Called in Dead
37. The Correspondent
38. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
39. Departure
40. All We Have Is Time
41. The Peculiar Gift of July
42. Heartwood
43. Seduction Theory
44. More Than Enough
45. The Book of Guilt
46. Discontent
47. The Intruder
48. The Found Object Society
49. Deep End
50. Mate (Bride, #2)
51. Guilty by Definition
52. The Doorman
53. A Killer Motive
54. The Briars
55. This Is Not About Us
56. The First Time I Saw Him (Hannah Hall, #2)
57. What We Can Know
58. Queen Esther
59. Other People’s Houses (DC Morgan, #3)
60. See How They Hide (Quinn & Costa, #6)
61. Don’t Say a Word (Angelhart Investigations, #2)
62. Angel Down
63. Close Your Eyes (Joseph O’Loughlin, #8)
64. Lie Lie Truth
65. The Academy
66. The Wife Stalker
67. Pictures of You
68. The Book of Lost Hours
69. Nightshade (Catalina, #1)
70. Buckeye
71. Say You’re Sorry (Joseph O’Loughlin #6)
72. Like Family
73. The Kind Worth Killing (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #1)
74. Forget Me Not
75. We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)
76. Immaculate Conception
77. How About Now: Poems
78. Katabasis
79. Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)
80. Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth, #2)
81. Lessons in Magic and Disaster
82. That’s Not My Name
83. She Didn’t See It Coming
84. Ace of Hearts: Lessons in Love from an Asexual Girl
85. The Girl Who Was Taken
86. The Summer War
87. Long Time Gone
88. The Suicide House (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #2)
89. The Cross (Eddie Flynn #0.5)
90. Some Choose Darkness (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #1)
91. Don’t Believe It
92. Twenty Years Later
93. Those Empty Eyes
94. Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
95. Tofino
96. When the Cranes Fly South
97. One Golden Summer
98. Cherry Blossoms
99. Local Woman Missing
100. Guess Again
101. The Dream Job
102. The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock, #1)
103. The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound
104. The Man Made of Smoke
105. These Summer Storms
106. Dying to Meet You
107. Aftertaste
108. Five Survive
109. Not Quite Dead Yet
110. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
111. Lord of the Butterflies
112. The Maid’s Diary
113. Memorial Days
114. A Language of Limbs
115. The Other Sister
116. Everyone Is Lying to You
117. Spectacular Things
118. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
119. Glass Girls
120. Proof
121. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
122. Culpability
123. Behind Every Good Man
124. The Unseen World
125. The Book Club for Troublesome Women
126. Things in Nature Merely Grow
127. The Compound
128. We Don’t Talk About Carol
129. The Unwritten Rules of Magic
130. So Far Gone
131. Fox
132. The Change
133. Little Ghosts
134. At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities
135. I Know How This Ends
136. The Strawberry Patch Pancake House (Dream Harbor, #4)
137. The Summer That Changed Everything
138. Hazel Says No
139. Don’t Open Your Eyes
140. Death of the Author
141. Kill Your Darlings
142. It’s a Love Story
143. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
144. What Kind of Paradise
145. Flashlight
146. The Lucky Ride
147. Atmosphere
148. All the Way to the River
149. Awake
150. It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
151. You Better Be Lightning
152. Room 706
153. Problematic Summer Romance (Not in Love, #2)
154. The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu
155. Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierce, #2)
156. Silver Elite (Silver Elite, #1)
157. The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
158. Double Take (Lake City Heroes, #1)
159. Heart the Lover
160. The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1)
161. The Tenant
162. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
163. Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland, #3)
164. Atlas of Unknowable Things
165. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
166. The Names
167. Claire, Darling
168. The Amalfi Curse
169. Overdue
170. Great Big Beautiful Life
171. Of Flame and Fury
172. Sunrise on the Reaping
173. A Family Matter
174. The Wasp Trap
175. If You Love It, Let It Kill You
176. The Wedding Vow
177. How to Read a Book
178. The Satisfaction Café
179. The Devil’s Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6)
180. First Wife’s Shadow
181. The Eights
182. The Homemade God
183. The Seven O’Clock Club
184. The Perfect Divorce (Perfect, #2)
185. Whale Fall
186. The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams (Dove Pond, #4)
187. Bring the House Down
188. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, #1)
189. Run for the Hills
190. Woodworking
191. The Listeners
192. The Elements (The Elements, #1-4)
193. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
194. Rubbernecker
195. The Ghostwriter
196. The Other Side of Now
197. Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5)
198. Say You’ll Remember Me (Say You’ll Remember Me, #1)
199. All That Life Can Afford
200. Disappoint Me
201. The Antidote
202. The Memory Collectors
203. The Last Ferry Out
204. Red Dog Farm
205. Happiness Forever
206. The Poppy Fields
207. The River Is Waiting
208. Finding Grace
209. The Love Haters
210. Promise Me Sunshine
211. I Leave It Up to You
212. Michael Without Apology
213. The Bright Years
214. The Burden of Proof (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #2)
215. Wild Dark Shore
216. The Bones Beneath My Skin
217. The Tell: A Memoir
218. The Impossible Thing
219. The River Has Roots
220. The Last Trip
221. Homeseeking
222. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
223. Trust Me on This
224. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)
225. All Better Now
226. Presumed Guilty (Kindle County #13; Presumed Innocent #3)
227. My Friends
228. The Missing Half
229. Penitence
230. A Killing Cold
231. Vantage Point
232. The Heart of Winter
233. We All Live Here
234. First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
235. Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo, #2)
236. The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds
237. The Stolen Queen
238. Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose
239. Is She Really Going Out with Him?
240. Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
241. Code Name Hélène
242. The Favorites
243. The Briar Club
244. How the Light Gets In
245. The Society of Unknowable Objects
246. The Three Lives of Cate Kay
247. The Incredible Kindness of Paper
248. The Instrumentalist
249. The Summer that Melted Everything
250. The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
251. The Frozen River
252. Colored Television
253. Where the Darkness Goes
254. Count the Ways