50 Books in 2025

[nessness]

29. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

30. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

[YellowCat]

1. Dawn on a Distant Shore, Sara Donati
2. The Lost Bookshop, Evie Woods
3. There's Something About Mira, Sonali Dev
4. Kaleidoscope, Danielle Steele
5. Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk
6. The Library Thief, Kuchenga Shenje
7. Not the Duke's Darling, Elizabeth Hoyt
8. Lake in the Clouds, Sara Donati
9. Fire Across the Sky, Sara Donati
10. Swordheart, T. Kingfisher
11. Queen of Swords, Sara Donati
12. The Shoemaker's Wife, Adriana Trigiani
13. Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
14. Birds of a Feather, Jacqueline Winspear
15. This will be Fun, E. B. Asher
16. Love at First Book, Jenn McKinlay
17. The Bedlam Stacks, Natasha Pulley
18. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend, Emma R. Alban
19. The Once and Future Fling, Leigh Heasley
20. The Endless Forest, Sara Donati
21. Fear the Flames, Olivia Rose Darling
22. Anybody Out There, Marian Keyes
23. The Widow of Rose House, Diana Biller
24. You, Again, Kate Goldbeck
25. Meeting Millie, Clare Ashton
26. The Magpie Lord, KJ Charles
27. Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett
28. The Work of Art, Mimi Matthews
29. A Case of Possession, KJ Charles
30. Half a Soul, Olivia Atwater
31. A Place of Hiding, Elizabeth George
32. The Ballad of Smallhope & Pennyroyal, Jodi Taylor
33. Duke of Pleasure, Elizabeth Hoyt
34. Doing Time, Jodi Taylor
35. A Second Chance, Jodi Taylor
36. A Trail Through Time, Jodi Taylor
37. No Time Like the Past, Jodi Taylor
38. Christmas is All Around, Martha Waters
39. My Favorite Mistake, Marian Keyes
40. A Jingle Bell Mingle, Sierra Simone & Julie Murphy
41. The Last Policeman, Ben H. Winters
42. The House on an Irish Hillside, Felicity Hayes-McCoy
43. What Could Possibly Go Wrong, Jodi Taylor
44. Lies, Damned Lies, and History, Jodi Taylor
45. Nine Rules to Break when Romancing a Rake, Sarah MacLean
46. The Vicar and the Rake, Annabelle Greene
47. The Burning Sky, Sherry Thomas
48. A Tempest at Sea, Sherry Thomas
49. The Perilous Sea, Sherry Thomas
50. The Immortal Heights, Sherry Thomas
51. Red, White, and Royal Blue; Casey McQuiston
52. The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley
53. The Rogue of Fifth Avenue, Joanna Shupe
54. The Next Best Fling, Gabriella Gamez
55. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

[PlanetDee]

16. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

[erp]

28) Imaginable: How to Create a Hopeful Future by Jane McGonigal
29) The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer
30) Blind Drunk: A Sober Look at Our Boozy Culture by Veronica Woodruff
31) The Year of Less:  How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in A Store by Cait Flanders

All these were interesting in very different ways.

I read The Year of Less last year I think - it was a really thought provoking one, and I remember it being impactful :)

[hudsoncat]

January:
1) Snakebit by Paul Dorion
2) The Dollmakers by Lynn Buchanan
3) Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
4) Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
5) Tigana by Guy Gabriel Kay
6) Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
7) The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
8) Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation by Jim O'Heir
9) The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
10) The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
11) I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
February:
12) The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
13) Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
14) This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
15) Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
16) The House on the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
17) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
March:
18) Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
19) The Bang-Bang Sisters by Rio Youers
20) The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson
21) The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
22) Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames
23) Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
24) Funny Story by Emily Henry
25) Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
26) Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett
April
27) Just for Summer by Abby Jimenez
28) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
29) Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
30) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
31) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
32) Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
33) The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
34) The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison
May
35) The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Bandanna
36) Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio
37) The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei
38) Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
39) Battle Mountain by C.J. Box