thelorelei's list 2025 - this is getting ridiculous

In 2024 I made it to a grand total of 50 books. I've just started a new, less cruel job, with a much shorter commute, so will the gains in personal time from my better hours and more vacation time be undone by my losses in audiobook time from my shorter commute? LET'S FIND OUT!

January
1. The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang
2. The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
3. Alanna: The First Adventure (audiobook) by Tamora Pierce
4. Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin
6. In The Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce (audio)

February
7. Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
8. Naamah's Curse by Jacqueline Carey
9. Naamah's Blessing by Jacqueline Carey
10. Earth & Air by Peter Dickinson
11. When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
12. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce (audio)
13. Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce (audio)

March
14. First Test by Tamora Pierce (audio)
15. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien
16. Page by Tamora Pierce (audio)

April
17. Squire by Tamora Pierce (audio)
18. Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
19. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

May
20. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (audio)
21. The Wicked King by Holly Black (audio)
22. Sasha vs. the Whole Wide World (and dragons) by Rachel Taylor Thompson

June
23. The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black (audio)
24. Thief Liar Lady by D.L. Soria
25. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
26. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
27. The Lost Sisters by Holly Black (audio)

July/August/September
28. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
29. How Long 'til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin
30. Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (audio)
31. Becoming by Michelle Obama (audio)
32. Inanna by Emily H. Wilson
33. Gilgamesh by Emily H. Wilson
34. Ninshubar by Emily H. Wilson
35. Artemis by Andy Weir
36. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (actually read in January and forgot to log it and don't want to change all the numbers...)
37. Wizard of Earthsea: a Graphic Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

October
38. Starless by Jacqueline Carey
39. Minding my Mitochondria by Terry Wahls (read in August but remembered late)
40. Slow Horses by Mick Herron
41. A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim
42. Undreamt by J.H. Bray (belated entry)
43. Incredible Stories at the Bus Stop by Delenda Carthago (belated entry)
44. A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan (belated entry)
45. Provenance by Ann Leckie (belated entry)
46. Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
47. The Dragon's Promise by Elizabeth Lim
48. Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey (audio)

November
49. The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
50. All Systems Red by Martha Wells (belated entry)
51. The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu
52. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik (audio)
53. Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin
54. The Space Cat by Nnedi Okorafor
55. The Doctor's Sweetheart and other Stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery

December
56. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
57 The Stolen Heir (audiobook) by Holly Black
58. Song of the Lioness, Book 1: Alanna, The First Adventure adapted by Vita Ayala from source material by Tamora Pierce. (belated entry)
59. The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black

Welcome back! Sounds like some changes have happened - hope it means more reading for you.

>2 drneutron: Yes! Good changes in the personal sphere. It was pretty grim there for awhile. (It's never a good sign when you want to pick up a new author but have been so out of it that you literally can't think of anyone you've "heard of" recently because you've been so nose to the grindstone.)
Good thing I can always find some Le Guin that I haven't read yet. Though it gets tough figuring out which of her short story collections I've read from the library and which I haven't. Perhaps the answer is just to buy all of them.

It cannot be October and I'm only at 45 books. Surely not. That being said I have the sneaking suspicion that I sometimes forget to list a few here and there as I finish them.