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First Book 2025 - The Brothers Karamazov

Happy New Year, everyone! This has the potential to be one, rough, year. Let’s make the best of it and bury ourselves in books. Shall we?

As readers, we get such a kick out of our first book of the year! SO much goes into it. It has to be memorable, maybe even life changing. It has to be enough to take us well into the year and not stall us dead in our tracks. I often hope that it will set the tone for my year but in all honesty, we read so much that it’s an ever-evolving TBR list, isn’t it?

Well, I decided to read The Brothers Karamazov as my first book of 2025! Murakami is one of my fave authors and every year he lists this book as one of his favorites. I will finally be getting to it!

Thanks to Sheila for hosting First Book.

2024 FAVE READS, BOOKCHATTER.NET

This is a list of my faves read in 2024 in no particular order.

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Tom Lake

Clear by Carys Davies

Clear

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

The Mothers

Sandwich by Catherine Newman

Sandwich

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

All the Colors of the Dark

James by Percival Everett

James

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Tell Me Everything

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Remarkably Bright Creatures

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

I Cheerfully Refuse

The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

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Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly

Pete and Alice in Maine

Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger

Like Mother, Like Mother

All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall

All the Water in the World

1984 by George Orwell (a re-read and boy, what a read)

All links point to my review of each book so check them out if you are looking for something to read.

My reading was down due to the four months post surgery where I absolutely could not read anything! Two steroids ramped me up so much I could not concentrate. BUT, I still did pretty well. Lots of good reads and ended with a total of 42.

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