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Here are the 50 books I read in 2025. I started and ended the year with Bond, James Bond. Finally got around to Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, Erasure (by Percival Everett), and Michael Cunningham's The Hours. Arthur Machen was a new discovery for me. www.udc793.org/2026/02/2025... #2025Reading

Every single one of these books spoke to me intellectually, artistically, and emotionally in so many ways. I’ll probably do an honorable mentions post with those that just missed out on my top reads (let me know if that’s something you all would be interested in!). #2025reading #2025inreview

• My 2025 reading totals:
🔹 129 books completed
🔸 34,116 pages
A bit of a disappointment compared to last year’s tally:
🔹 162 books completed
🔸 43,385 pages
I need to find more time to read in 2026!! 🤓
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My favorite reads of 2025! First category is recreational reading. A Series of Rooms is rated 4.5 stars. The House of My Mother is rated 5 stars. Snow Boys is rated 4.5 stars. A Taste of Gold and Iron is rated 5 stars. Dead & Breakfast is rated 4 stars. The Outsiders is rated 5 stars. Second category is school reading. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is rated 4 stars. The Norton Anthology of World Literature is rated 4.5 stars.

This isn’t everything I read. I just included the highlights of some of my favorite reads! 🎉🎊 #readingwrapup #booksky #reading #2025reading

Favorite non-fiction reads of 2025:

- Spell Freedom, Elaine Weiss
- One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
- Blazing Eye Sees All, Leah Sottile
- Say Nothing, Keefe
- Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Giles

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Favorite fiction reads of 2025:

- Glorious Exploits
- Two-Step Devil
- Gliff
- The Great Work
- The Book of I
- Hard By A Great Forest
- The Book of Records
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
- Severance
- The Golem of Brooklyn

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My top ten favorite new-to-me reads of 2025!

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My monthly favorite new-to-me sapphic/queer reads of 2025!

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I ended up reading 130 books in 2025. Woot!

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My 2025 reads. Books were a good escape from the nonsense and chaos! Hoping for a more peaceful and kinder 2026. 📚 #booksky #books #2025reading

My 2025 reading wrap-up graphic from @thestorygraph.com

91 books read in 2025
23,285 pages
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My year in reading… I’ve definitely had better years but it’s more than I expected this year!
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2025 Reading 171 Books

Distribution by Gender

Male 52.3%
Female 44.8%
Non Binary 2.9%

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2025 Reading 171 Books

Distribution by genre

Poetry 36%
Fiction 23.3%
AI 2.3%
Drama 2.3%
Philosophy 1.7%
Business 1.7%

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2025 Reading 171 Books

Distribution by original language

English 68.6%
Japanese 9.9%
French 7.0%
Chinese 2.9%
German 2.3%
Russian 1.7%
Korean 1.2%

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2025 Book 3. The This – Adam Roberts – sprawling across time, from social media group think to the struggle between the hive mind and the have not mind. #booksky #2025Reading 📚💙

2025 Book 2. Ghost of the Neon God – T.R. Napper – a cyberpunk novella set in Australia, a thief’s get away doesn’t go as planned, he hijacks a ride share, and everyone is after him for the thing he shouldn’t have. #booksky #2025Reading 📚💙

A thread of my favorite books I read this year. I read a lot of poetry this year (mostly due to my Read It Slant poetry group @katebbeall.bsky.social @pounk.bsky.social @dianalog.bsky.social). I look forward to reading more stories and poems next year! 📚

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Im at 47/50 for my 2025 book reading goal. With 5 days left. Can I do it?? 😬

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Top 10 Fiction Reads 1. King of Ashes 2. Parable Duology 3. Bat Eater & Other Names for Cora Zeng 4. Little Rot 5. Cry, Voidbringer 6. When Women Were Dragons 7. Eleanor Olphant Is Completely Fine 8. Happy Land 9. P.S. I Hate You 10. Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow

Top 10 Nonfiction Reads 1. The Library Book 2. How To Protect Bookstores And Why 3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4. We Refuse Art on My Mind visual politics 5. Life's Edge 6. Banned Book Club bell hooks 7. The Complete Persepolis 8. Art On My Mind 9. Killers of the Flower Moon 10. Crow Planet

Top 10 Romance Reads 1. The Heart Principle 2. The Bride Test 3. Hello Stranger 4. Love of My After Life 5. Pictures of You 6. The Dead Romantics 7. Good Spirits 8. Deep End 9. Mate 10. Shark Heart

Honorable Mentions 1. Just Some Stupid Love Story 2. Witchcraft For Wayward Girls 3. This Time Next Year 4. Wandering Stars 5. Someone You Can Build A Nest In 6. Liquid 7. The Bombshell 8. Wild Reverence 9. Maame 10. Greta & Valdin

My top 10 Fiction, Nonfiction, Romance and Honorable mentions for my 2025 reading.

I read 189 books so far which is low for me but I read some AMAZING books this year!

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An Act of Foul Play, by T.E. Kinsey As the world continues to go to hell, I keep reaching for comfort reads that are also generally undemanding. (It doesn’t help that I’m struggling to write my TBR Challenge review for th…

28.- I read T.E. Kinsey's #AnActOfFoulPlay, the ninth novel in the #LadyHardcastle series of #HistoricalCozyMystery books.

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Game Changer, by Rachel Reid I will confess for the record, that I slept on Rachel Reid’s Game Changers genre romance series when it was first published; it wasn’t until the trailer for the “Heated Rivalry&#8…

27.- I read Rachel Reid's #GameChanger, the first in the #GameChangers hockey genre romance books.

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Unacceptable Risk, by Kaje Harper My introduction to the author, and I blame Caz’s review of the prequel novella for my adding yet another author with a large backlist to my TBR cordillera of doom.. Beware: violent homophobia…

26.- I read Kaje Harper's #UnacceptableRisk, first in the #HiddenWolves shifter genre romance books.

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The Seven Rings, by Nora Roberts Things have been so bad/weird, reading-wise, I had forgotten entirely that I had been offered this ARC at some point this year. Beware: suicide; narcissist ex; once again equating evil with mental …

25.- I read Nora Robert's #TheSevenRings, the third in the #LostBrides trilogy; these are contemporary romantic suspense novels with paranormal elements.

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A Murderous Business, by Cathy Pegau I don’t remember when I first became aware of this book, though author’s name recognition definitely played a part, and I love the cover and the premise. Beware: sexist discrimination a…

24.- I read Cathy Pegau's #AMurderousBusiness, a #HistoricalMystery, and hopefully the first in the #Harriman&Mancini series.

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Book No.32 of 2025.
This is definitely my favourite of the series so far & now really looking forward to seeing how this journey ends.
Filled up all my books on my shelf so need to add more.
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Rotten to the Core, by T.E. Kinsey Trying to keep the reading momentum going, by returning to a favorite series. Beware: while there’s less emphasis in drinking-to-get drunk, there’s still a lot of drinking; phonetic spe…

23.- I read T.E. Kinsey's #RottenToTheCore, the eight novel in the #LadyHardcastle #HistoricalCozyMystery series.

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He's still in that world (unlike Emma & Dan who seemed to have moved on imo) so he's still clinging to her for his gratitude.
To me though, that's not a good enough excuse so I'm glad I read it but I'm also glad to be out of that world!
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