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
- Enormous Wings
- Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
- Ode to the Half-Broken
- Too Old for This
- A Guardian and a Thief
- Good Intentions
- Every Version of You
- King of Ashes
- A Good Animal
- The Death of Us
- Wild Animal
- Cherry Baby
- Sipsworth
- Go Gentle
- The Midnight Knock
- The Book Witch
- Best Offer Wins
- This Must Be the Place
- Your Knife, My Heart (Dark Forces, #1)
- The Buddha in the Attic
- Two Kinds of Stranger (Eddie Flynn #9)
- Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
- Dead Money
- Life: A Love Story
- To Cage a Wild Bird
- Lake Effect
- My Husband’s Wife
- Ghost Fish
- Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11)
- The Road to Tender Hearts
- Gone Before Goodbye
- Life, and Death, and Giants
- Wreck
- Count My Lies
- The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake
- I See You’ve Called in Dead
- The Correspondent
- To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
- Departure
- All We Have Is Time
- The Peculiar Gift of July
- Heartwood
- Seduction Theory
- More Than Enough
- The Book of Guilt
- Discontent
- The Intruder
- The Found Object Society
- Deep End
- Mate (Bride, #2)
- Guilty by Definition
- The Doorman
- A Killer Motive
- The Briars
- This Is Not About Us
- The First Time I Saw Him (Hannah Hall, #2)
- What We Can Know
- Queen Esther
- Other People’s Houses (DC Morgan, #3)
- See How They Hide (Quinn & Costa, #6)
- Don’t Say a Word (Angelhart Investigations, #2)
- Angel Down
- Close Your Eyes (Joseph O’Loughlin, #8)
- Lie Lie Truth
- The Academy
- The Wife Stalker
- Pictures of You
- The Book of Lost Hours
- Nightshade (Catalina, #1)
- Buckeye
- Say You’re Sorry (Joseph O’Loughlin #6)
- Like Family
- The Kind Worth Killing (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #1)
- Forget Me Not
- We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)
- Immaculate Conception
- How About Now: Poems
- Katabasis
- Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)
- Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth, #2)
- Lessons in Magic and Disaster
- That’s Not My Name
- She Didn’t See It Coming
- Ace of Hearts: Lessons in Love from an Asexual Girl
- The Girl Who Was Taken
- The Summer War
- Long Time Gone
- The Suicide House (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #2)
- The Cross (Eddie Flynn #0.5)
- Some Choose Darkness (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #1)
- Don’t Believe It
- Twenty Years Later
- Those Empty Eyes
- Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
- Tofino
- When the Cranes Fly South
- One Golden Summer
- Cherry Blossoms
- Local Woman Missing
- Guess Again
- The Dream Job
- The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock, #1)
- The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound
- The Man Made of Smoke
- These Summer Storms
- Dying to Meet You
- Aftertaste
- Five Survive
- Not Quite Dead Yet
- The Reappearance of Rachel Price
- Lord of the Butterflies
- The Maid’s Diary
- Memorial Days
- A Language of Limbs
- The Other Sister
- Everyone Is Lying to You
- Spectacular Things
- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
- Glass Girls
- Proof
- Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
- Culpability
- Behind Every Good Man
- The Unseen World
- The Book Club for Troublesome Women
- Things in Nature Merely Grow
- The Compound
- We Don’t Talk About Carol
- The Unwritten Rules of Magic
- So Far Gone
- Fox
- The Change
- Little Ghosts
- At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities
- I Know How This Ends
- The Strawberry Patch Pancake House (Dream Harbor, #4)
- The Summer That Changed Everything
- Hazel Says No
- Don’t Open Your Eyes
- Death of the Author
- Kill Your Darlings
- It’s a Love Story
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
- What Kind of Paradise
- Flashlight
- The Lucky Ride
- Atmosphere
- All the Way to the River
- Awake
- It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
- You Better Be Lightning
- Room 706
- Problematic Summer Romance (Not in Love, #2)
- The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu
- Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierce, #2)
- Silver Elite (Silver Elite, #1)
- The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
- Double Take (Lake City Heroes, #1)
- Heart the Lover
- The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1)
- The Tenant
- All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
- Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland, #3)
- Atlas of Unknowable Things
- Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
- The Names
- Claire, Darling
- The Amalfi Curse
- Overdue
- Great Big Beautiful Life
- Of Flame and Fury
- Sunrise on the Reaping
- A Family Matter
- The Wasp Trap
- If You Love It, Let It Kill You
- The Wedding Vow
- How to Read a Book
- The Satisfaction Café
- The Devil’s Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6)
- First Wife’s Shadow
- The Eights
- The Homemade God
- The Seven O’Clock Club
- The Perfect Divorce (Perfect, #2)
- Whale Fall
- The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams (Dove Pond, #4)
- Bring the House Down
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, #1)
- Run for the Hills
- Woodworking
- The Listeners
- The Elements (The Elements, #1-4)
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
- Rubbernecker
- The Ghostwriter
- The Other Side of Now
- Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5)
- Say You’ll Remember Me (Say You’ll Remember Me, #1)
- All That Life Can Afford
- Disappoint Me
- The Antidote
- The Memory Collectors
- The Last Ferry Out
- Red Dog Farm
- Happiness Forever
- The Poppy Fields
- The River Is Waiting
- Finding Grace
- The Love Haters
- Promise Me Sunshine
- I Leave It Up to You
- Michael Without Apology
- The Bright Years
- The Burden of Proof (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #2)
- Wild Dark Shore
- The Bones Beneath My Skin
- The Tell: A Memoir
- The Impossible Thing
- The River Has Roots
- The Last Trip
- Homeseeking
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
- Trust Me on This
- Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)
- All Better Now
- Presumed Guilty (Kindle County #13; Presumed Innocent #3)
- My Friends
- The Missing Half
- Penitence
- A Killing Cold
- Vantage Point
- The Heart of Winter
- We All Live Here
- First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
- Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo, #2)
- The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds
- The Stolen Queen
- Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose
- Is She Really Going Out with Him?
- Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
- Code Name Hélène
- The Favorites
- The Briar Club
- How the Light Gets In
- The Society of Unknowable Objects
- The Three Lives of Cate Kay
- The Incredible Kindness of Paper
- The Instrumentalist
- The Summer that Melted Everything
- The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
- The Frozen River
- Colored Television
- Where the Darkness Goes
- Count the Ways
