GerrysBookshelf in 2025

Nature and Science

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Bees: Nature’s Little Wonders by Candace Savage
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
The Beekeeper’s Lamentby Hannah Nordhaus
The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World by Edward D. Melillo
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door by Thor Hanson
Still as Bright by Christopher Cokinos
This is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature by Joanna Brichetto

Virago Modern Classics

The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories by Marjorie Barnard
Phoenix Fled by Attia Hosain
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
Strangers by Antonia White
The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Death Goes on Skis by Nancy Spain

Furrowed Middlebrow

Kate Hardy by D. E. Stevenson
Family Ties by Celia Buckmaster
A Pink Front Door by Stella Gibbons
Clothes-Pegs by Susan Scarlett
All Done by Kindness by Doris Langley Moore
Love Comes Home by Molly Clavering
Wine of Honour by Barbara Beauchamp
Alice by Elizabeth Eliot
Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson

Jane Austen 250th Anniversary

Persuasion
Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen: a life by Claire Tomalin
Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom by Deborah Yaffe
What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney

Global Reading

Sweden - Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlof
Norway - Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
Sweden - When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen
Norway The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten

Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice
Twelfth Night
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Coriolanus
Much Ado About Nothing
Cymbeline

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench

Queen Hereafter by Isabelle Schuler
Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell

January

1. Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
2. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
3. The Comet Sweeper by Claire Brock
4. The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier
5. Kate Hardy by D. E. Stevenson
6. The Snow Hare by Paula Lichtarowicz
7. You Are Here by David Nicholls
8. Family Ties by Celia Buckmaster
9. Persuasion by Jane Austen
10. Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
11. Bees : Nature’s Little Wonders by Candace Savage

February

12. Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom by Deborah Yaffe
13. What matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan
14. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
15. Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlof
16. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
17. Death at a Shetland Festival by Marsali Taylor
18. River Poems edited by Henry Hughes
19. Pause by Emily Carr
20. Friends of my Youth by Alice Munro

March

21. A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
22. The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
23. Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
24. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench
25. Swan: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver (reread)
26. The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
27. Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
28. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
29. Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern
30. Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
31. Love Notes From The Hollow Tree by Jarod K. Anderson
32. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
33. Chivalry and Courtesy: Medieval Manners for a Modern World by Daniele Cybulskie
34. Leaf Litter by Jarod K. Anderson
35. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
36. The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories by Marjorie Barnard

April

37. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
38. A Pink Front Door by Stella Gibbons
39. Queen Hereafter by Isabelle Schuler
40. Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp

May

41. Village Christmas by Miss Read
42. Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
43. Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
44. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
45. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
46. The Beekeeper’s Lament by Hannah Nordhaus
47. The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World by Edward D. Melillo

June

48. Clay by Melissa Harrison
49. The Secret Garden (reread) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
50. The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald
51. The Adversary by Michael Crummey
52. Poets Square by Courtney Gustafson
53. Art & Nature : An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry selected by Kate Farrell
54. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
55. Unearthing the Secret Garden by Marta McDowell
56. Clothes-Pegs by Susan Scarlett
57. The Fall of Light by Niall Williams

July

58. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
59. I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
60. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
61. A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
62. All Done by Kindness by Doris Langley Moore
63. Silence and Witness: The Quaker Tradition by Michael L. Birkel
64. Love Comes Home by Molly Clavering
65. Phoenix Fled by Attia Hosain
66. Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door by Thor Hanson
67. A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
68. Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven
69. A Quaker Book of Wisdom by Robert Lawrence Smith

August

70. The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
71. Pronoun Trouble : the story of us in seven little words by John McWhorter
72. Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood
73. The World Atlas of Honey by C. Marina Marchese
74. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
75. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
76. Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
77. The Hangman by Louise Penny
78. On Edward Hicks by Sanford Schwartz
79. Poems of New York edited by Elizabeth Schmidt
80. A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
81. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
82. The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
83. Wine of Honour by Barbara Beauchamp

September

84. When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen
85. How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
86. What is Life? Five Great Ideas in Biology by Paul Nurse
87. Proto : How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney
88. The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett
89. The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
90. The Salt Stones by Helen Whybrow
91. The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
92. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry : poems about food and drink edited by Peter Washington

October

93. The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
94. Still as Bright by Christopher Cokinos
95. Dark Renaissance by Stephen Greenblatt
96. The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
97. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
98. Isola by Allegra Goodman
99. A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
100. This is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature by Joanna Brichetto
101. Strangers by Antonia White
102. Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell
103. The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton
104. A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

November

105. Alice by Elizabeth Eliot
106. The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Pere-Lachaise by Benoit Gallot
107. Bog Queen by Anna North
108. The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
109. Andromeda by Therese Bohman
110. Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
111. Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
112. Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson
113. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

December

114. The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
115. Book of Lives : A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
116. Practicing Peace : a devotional walk through the Quaker tradition by Catherine Whitmire
117. The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten
118. The Very Dead of Winter by Mary Hocking
119. The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
120. They Poisoned the World : Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals by Mariah Blake
121. The Book of Days by Francesca Kay
122. Startlement by Ada Limon
123. Glass Houses by Louise Penny
124. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
125. Death Goes On Skis by Nancy Spain
126. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Favorite Books in 2025

Fiction
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen

Nonfiction
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door by Thor Hanson
The World Atlas of Honey by C. Marina Marchese
The Salt Stones by Helen Whybrow
This is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature by Joanna Brichetto
The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Pere-LaChaise by Benoit Gallot
Book of Lives : A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
They Poisoned the World : life and death in the age of forever chemicals by Mariah Blake

Poetry
Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
Art & Nature : An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry selected by Kate Farrell

Acquired: Paper: 94 Ebook: 49
Donated or discarded: 164

Borrowed: 35

Welcome back!

Welcome back, Geraldine.

Happy 2025, Gerry

>18 drneutron: >19 PaulCranswick: >20 PaulCranswick:
Thank you! And a happy and prosperous New Year to you too!

Hope you have a great year of reading!

Have a great weekend, Gerry.

What beautiful monthly pictures! I look forward to seeing what you're reading.