lindapanzo's 2025 ROOTs

I'm back for another year of ROOTing.

I'm back for 2025 for my 11th year in the ROOTs challenge. Can that be right?!?

I love being able to see books fly off my bookshelves, print or Kindle, though, of course, I do tend to pick up more. Ahem, way more than I expect.

Once again, for 2025, I plan to take a broader view of ROOTs, including both print and Kindle books that I own along with Net Galley books on Kindle.

My goal is again 84 ROOTs for 2025. In the end, I read 105 ROOTS in 2024 but, for 2025, I'd like to get more of the chunksters off my shelves.



ROOTS read in 2025

1. Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee--finished on 1/1/25
2. Trouble Is Brewing by Ellie Alexander--finished on 1/2/25
3. Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan--finished on 1/5/25
4. Chapter and Curse by Elizabeth Penney--finished on 1/9/25
5. What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Aoyama Michiko--finished on 1/11/25
6. A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovey and Billy Williams by Jason Cannon--finished on 1/17/25
7. Killing Me Soufflé by Ellie Alexander--finished on 1/19/25
8. Schooled in Murder by Victoria Gilbert--finished on 1/22/25
9. She Doesn't Have a Clue by Jenny Elder Moke--finished on 1/25/25
10. A Cross-Country Wedding by Courtney Walsh--finished on 1/28/25
11. Scone Cold Dead by Maddie Day--finished on 2/1/25
12. Rise: My Story by Lindsey Vonn--finished on 2/5/25
13. Death and the Librarian by Victoria Gilbert--finished on 2/8/25
14. A Victim at Valentine's by Ellie Alexander--finished on 2/12/25
15. The Case of the Caretaker's Cat by Erle Stanley Gardner--finished on 2/13/25
16. Chicago's Modern Mayors by Dick Simpson--finished on 2/17/25
17. The Socialite's Guide to Sleuthing and Secrets by S.K. Golden--finished on 2/22/25
18. Betrayal at Blackthorn Park by Julia Kelly--finished on 2/25/25
19. A Treacherous Tale by Elizabeth Penney--finished on 2/28/25
20. Bait and Swiss by Korina Moss--finished on 3/4/25
21. Propaganda Girls by Lisa Rogak--finished on 3/7/25
22. Tea with Jam & Dread by Vicki Delany--finished on 3/10/25
23. High Tea and Misdemeanors by Laura Childs--finished on 3/17/25
24. River of Books by Donna Seaman--finished on 3/21/25
25. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne--finished on 3/23/25
26. Dead Ringer by Sarah Fox--finished on 3/26/25
27. A Traitor in Whitehall by Julia Kelly--finished on 3/29/25
28. Bridal Shower Murder by Leslie Meier--finished on 4/3/25
29. Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski--finished on 4/8/25
30. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard--finished on 4/14/25
31. Shot Through the Book by Eva Gates--finished on 4/20/25
32. A Fashionably French Murder by Colleen Cambridge--finished on 4/27/25
33. When Sleeping Women Wake by Emma Pei Yin--finished on 4/30/25
34. The Bookstore Wedding - Alice Hoffman--finished on 5/1/25
35. Star-Crossed Egg Tarts by Jennifer J. Chow--finished on 5/6/25
36. I'm That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams by Jordan Chiles--finished on 5/9/25
37. The Fatal Folio by Elizabeth Penney--finished on 5/13/25
38. Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery--finished on 5/19/25
39. A Body at the Book Fair by Ellie Alexander--finished on 5/22/25
40. Prisoner of the Swiss - Daniel Culler--finished on 5/23/25
41. Fudge and Jury by Ellie Alexander--finished on 5/26/25
42. Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery--finished on 5/29/25
43. Valentine's Day 1946 by Linda Mahkovec--finished on 6/2/25
44. Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto--finished on 6/5/25
45. N or M? by Agatha Christie--finished on 6/9/25
46. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle--finished on 6/12/25
47. A Crime of Passion Fruit by Ellie Alexander--finished on 6/17/25
48. The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart--finished on 6/21/25
49. Get Your Tokens Ready by Chris Donnelly--finished on 6/25/25
50. Sour Crime Donuts by Ginger Bolton--finished on 6/29/25
51. The Original Six by Lew Freedman--finished on 7/3/25
52. Another One Bites the Crust by Ellie Alexander--finished on 7/5/25
53. Edam and Weep by Linda Reilly--finished on 7/12/25
54. Uncanceled: Reclaiming Your Story by Jay Fostner--finished on 7/13/25
55. The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime by Vicki Delany--finished on 7/20/25
56. Death by Chocolate Pumpkin Muffin by Sarah Graves--finished on 7/27/25
57. Till Death Do Us Tart by Ellie Alexander--finished on 8/2/25
58. Murder at Morrington Hall by Clara McKenna--finished on 8/5/25
59. Evolve or Die: Hard-Won Lessons from a Hockey Life by John Shannon--finished on 8/8/25
60. A Wonderful Christmas Crime by Jacqueline Frost--finished on 8/10/25
61. Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon--finished on 8/14/25
62. Lady Killer by Ed McBain--finished on 8/18/25
63. O, Deadly Night by Vicki Delany--finished on 8/21/25
64. Ballpark Therapy: Why We Go, Why It Matters by George Falkowski --finished on 8/27/25
65. The Theft of the Iron Dogs by E.C.R. Lorac--finished on 8/30/25
66. The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols--finished on 9/1/25
67. Cop Hater by Ed Mc Bain--finished on 9/3/25
68. My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke--finished on 9/6/25
69. The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood--finished on 9/10/25
70. Snug in Iceland by Victoria Walker--finished on 9/14/25
71. Two Truths and a Murder by Colleen Cambridge--finished on 9/17/25
72. Scone Cold Killer by Lena Gregory--finished on 9/20/25
73. At Death's Dough by Mindy Quigley--finished on 9/25/25
74. Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News by Bill Kurtis--finished on 9/29/25
75. Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood--finished on 10/2/25
76. Dark in Death by J.D. Robb--finished on 10/5/25
77. First in Thirst by Darren Rovell--finished on 10/7/25
78. Fondant Fumble by Jenn McKinlay--finished on 10/11/25
79. Reel Trouble by Karen MacInerney--finished on 10/15/25
80. Hideaway in Iceland by Victoria Walker--finished on 10/18/25
81. The Third Best Hull by Dennis Hull--finished on 10/23/25
82. A Deadly Clue by Victoria Gilbert--finished on 10/26/25
83. Laying Down the Latte by Ellie Alexander--finished on 11/1/25
84. A Twelfth Night Miracle by Callie Langridge--finished on 11/3/25
85. The Black Wolf by Louise Penny--finished on 11/6/25
86. The Victim by Saul Bellow--finished on 11/10/25
87. The Hidden City by Charles Finch--finished on 11/14/25
88. Clued in to Love by Ellie Alexander--finished on 11/17/25
89. A Perilous Plot by Lorna Barrett--finished on 11/21/25
90. Murder Made to Order by Lena Gregory--finished on 11/23/25
91. A Very Novel Murder by Ellie Alexander--finished on 11/26/25
92. A Cold Brew Killing by Lena Gregory--finished on 11/28/25
93. The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood--finished on 12/1/25
94. Terror on the Train by Jeanne M. Dams--finished on 12/6/25
95. A Waffle Lot of Murder by Lena Gregory--finished on 12/10/25
96. Vows and Villainy by Elizabeth Penney--finished on 12/21/25
97. Whole Latte Murder by Lena Gregory--finished on 12/22/25
98. Live and Let Pie by Ellie Alexander--finished on 12/26/25
99. A Cup of Holiday Fear by Ellie Alexander--finished on 12/28/25
100. The Boyer Brothers of Baseball by Lew Freedman--finished on 12/30/25

Welcome back, Linda!
Funny how nature abhors a vacuum, right? I have the same problem :D

>2 Cecilturtle: it also doesn’t hurt that my 16th Thingaversary is next week so this is stock up season.

Glad you're here again!

Hi Linda, good to see you back with the ROOTers. Go get them.

Happy ROOTing, Linda!

Still plugging away on ROOTs. Once again, glad to see I'm ahead of my pace.

That's nice to hear, Linda. Keep it up!

Closing in on my 84 ROOTs goal. Only 11 more to go.

One book to go til I reach my 2025 ROOTs goal.

>10 lindapanzo: go get the one you need, or did you reach your goal in November?

Yes, looking at your ticker you did!! Congrats.