2025 Reading Love (L-Anne)

"Birds have wings. Humans have books."

Goal for 2025 is 52 books. One book/week - 13 books/quarter

Summary Of 2024:
Goal was 52 books

Total books completed: 56
46 Adult Fiction
4 Juvenile/YA Fiction
5 Non-Fiction
1 Graphic Novel

Most loved books of the year 2024:
How To Read A Book by Monica Wood
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Currently Reading & Upcoming:
          

Goal for 2025 is 52 books. One book/week - 13 books/quarter

Reading Goal for 2025 - complete 52 books


Full list of books completed in 2025:

1. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
2. Colored Television by Danzy Senna
3. The Women by Kristin Hannah
4. Recipe For a Good Life by Lesley Crewe
5. This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
6. I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
7. When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward
8. Normal People by Sally Rooney
9. Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
10. Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
11. The Book Swap by Tessa Bicker
12. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight
13. I Only Read Murder by Ian & Will Ferguson
14. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
15. The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
16. Twist by Colum McCann
17. The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
18. Mystery in the Title by Ian & Will Ferguson
19. The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown
20. Etta & Otto & Russell & James by Emma Hooper
21. Borders by Thomas King
22. Snap by Susin Nielsen
23. Finding Flora by Elinor Florence
24. Make Your Bed by William McRaven
25. Mayo Clinic: on Alzheimer's Disease
26. The 36-Hour Day
27. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
28. Three Days In June by Anne Tyler
29. Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
30. So Far Gone by Jess Walter
31. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
32. All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
33. The North Line by Matt Riordan
34. J vs K by Kwame Alexander & Jerry Craft
35. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
36. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
37. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
38. Partypooper by Jeff Kinney
39. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
40. The Undercover Book list by Colleen Nelson
41. The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
42. The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
43. Apartment 713 by Kevin Sylvester
44. Pick A Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa
45. No Purchase Necessary by Maria Marianayagam
46. A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
47. The Kodiaks : Home Ice Advantage by David A. Robertson
48. A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
49. 6:40 to Montreal: a novel by Eva Jurczyk
50. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
51. I See You've Called In Dead by John Kenney
52. Wreck by Catherine Newman
53. The Measure by Nikki Erlick

Countries/Regions read 2009 - 2024:

This is my map of countries I've visited (in a bookish way) since I started keeping track in 2009. I will continue to read my way around the globe adding new destinations every year.


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Countries/Territories "visited" in 2024
Canada, India, Ireland, United States, Botswana, Japan, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, England, Italy, France, Australia, Montserrat

Armchair Travels in 2025:

1. USA - Maine
2. USA - California
3. Vietnam & USA - California
4. Canada - Nova Scotia (Cape Breton Island)
5. Canada - Prince Edward Island
6. Canada - Alberta
7. Canada - Nova Scotia
8. Ireland
9. Australia
10. Australia
11. U.K. (England)
12. U.K. (Scotland) & Canada
13. USA - Oregon
14. XXX Panem/Fictional setting
15. France
16. South Africa
17. XXX - Fictional setting

Goal for the year is 52 books - One book/week - 13 books/quarter

2025- First Quarter
Books read January, February, & March:

                     

1. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
2. Colored Television by Danzy Senna
3. The Women by Kristin Hannah
4. Recipe For a Good Life by Lesley Crewe
5. This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
6. I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
7. When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward
8. Normal People by Sally Rooney
9. Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
10. Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
11. The Book Swap by Tessa Bickers
12. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight

Goal for the year is 52 books - One book/week - 13 books/quarter - 26 by end of Q2

2025 - Second Quarter
Books read April, May, June:

                  

13. I Only Read Murder by Ian & Will Ferguson
14. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
15. The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
16. Twist by Colum McCann
17. The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
18. Mystery in the Title by Ian & Will Ferguson
19. The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown
20. Etta & Otto & Russell & James by Emma Hooper
21. Borders by Thomas King
22. Snap by Susin Nielsen

Goal for the year is 52 books - One book/week - 13 books/quarter - 39 by end of Q3

2025 - Third Quarter
Books read July, August, September:

                         

23. Finding Flora by Elinor Florence
24. Make Your Bed by William McRaven
25. Mayo Clinic: on Alzheimer's Disease
26. The 36-Hour Day
27. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
28. Three Days In June by Anne Tyler
29. Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
30. So Far Gone by Jess Walter
31. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
32. All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
33. The North Line by Matt Riordan
34. J vs K by Kwame Alexander & Jerry Craft
35. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (re-read)

Goal for the year is 52 books - One book/week - 13 books/quarter - 52 by end of Q4

2025 - Fourth Quarter
Books read October, November, December:

36. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
37. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
38. Partypooper by Jeff Kinney
39. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
40. The Undercover Book list by Colleen Nelson
41. The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
42. The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
43. Apartment 713 by Kevin Sylvester
44. Pick A Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa
45. No Purchase Necessary by Maria Marianayagam
46. A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
47. The Kodiaks : Home Ice Advantage by David A. Robertson
48. A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
49. 6:40 to Montreal: a novel by Eva Jurczyk
50. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
51. I See You've Called In Dead by John Kenney
52. Wreck by Catherine Newman
53. The Measure by Nikki Erlick

NOTE--FEB 2025: I am a proud CANADIAN. In light of current political tensions between my country and the United States, I have decided that going forward, I will be reading more works by CANADIAN authors. I will aim to read CANADIAN books first, and authors of any other country in the world, with less American work.

It's a small thing. It will not make a difference to anything that will happen in the world. But, this is personal. Canadians do not want to be the 51st anything!

2025 - Canadian authors read this year & upcoming...

✔Donna Jones Alward - When the World Fell Silent
✔ Lesley Crewe - Recipe For a Good Life
✔Natalie Sue - I Hope This Finds You Well
✔Carley Fortune - This Summer Will Be Different
✔Emma Knight - The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
✔Ian & Will Ferguson - I Only Read Murder
✔Emma Donoghue - The Paris Express
Louise Penny - The Nature of the Beast (book#11) Three Pines series
Waubgeshig Rice - Moon of the Turning Leaves (book#2)
Elinor Florence - Finding Flora
Wab Kinew - The Reason You Walk
Emma Hooper - Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Chris Hadfield - The Apollo Murders
Amanda Peters - The Berry Pickers