This is a list of the books I read and reviewed in
2025 .
Each link takes you directly to my review of that book. Happy New Year!
2025 Reviews
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
Evenings & Weekends by Oisin McKenna
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
Gliff by Ali Smith
Red Dog Farm by Nathanial Ian Miller
Pinch Me by Barbara Boyle
The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter
Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang
Never Flinch by Stephen King
The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce
All the Words We Know by Bruce Nash
The Sandy Page Bookshop by Hannah McKinnon
Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild
The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards
Havoc by Christopher Bollen
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
The End of the World as We Know It by Christopher Golden
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
With Friends Like These by Alissa Lee
Friends and Liars by Kit Frick
The Mad Wife by Meagan Church
Wreck by Catherine Newman
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
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Happy New Year to you and your family, Ti! Hope 2026 is a good year for reading, for health, for all of us. Big hugs sent to you and take care of yourself!!
Same to you!! The year kind of came in with a bang, an orange bang and then poof, it was gone. Here’s to a solid year of great reads.
Happy New Year! What a great list of books; let’s hope 2026 is just as successful.
My numbers weren’t great but man, I read some really good ones. I lowered my Goodread’s goal for this year so I can be choosy.
Great list. You read a lot of high quality books in 2025. I need to check a few of your reviews again … so thx for the links to them! Happy New Year.
Yes!! My numbers weren’t fabulous but the books, many of them were so good. The one I just reviewed today really stayed with me. It has mixed reviews but man, I was invested.