My reading list for 2025.
All books link back to the original review.
Key to Abbreviations.
- O = Own copy – I bought / swapped / was given / inherited it
- RC = Print review copy / freebie from publisher / Amazon Vine etc
- B or (S)L = borrowed from someone or the (School)Library resp.
- NG = Review copy via Netgalley
- NF = Non Fiction; P = Poetry; Gr = Graphic novel; Ch – Children’s
- Tr = Translated
- DNF= Did not finish. CGS = Couldn’t get started (first chapters only)
- And finally, an asterisk * = from the TBR (acquired by any of the above routes before 1.1.23)
Finished in 2025, reviewed in 2026
- The Cat by Georges Simenon – RC FTr (9/10) Review
- Here, and Only Here by Christelle Dabos – RC FTr (7/10) Review
- Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal by Robin Ince – O (9/10) Review
- Sounds Like a Plan by Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith – RC (8.5/10) Review
- The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson – O (10/10) Review
- The Suspect by Rob Rinder – O* (8/10) Review
- The Artist by Lucy Steeds – O F (10/10) Review
JANUARY
1. Into the Dark by Ørjan Karlsson – RC FTr (9/10) Review
2. Persuasion by Jane Austen – O* (9.5/10) Review
3. The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine – O* F (9/10) Review
4. Heaven by Meiko Kawakami – O* FTr (10/10) Review
5. Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce – O* F (9/10) Review
6. The Vipers by Katy Hays – O – F (8/10) Review
7. Homework by Geoff Dyer – O* NF (10/10) Review
FEBRUARY
8. The Cut Up by Louise Welsh – RC F (9.5/10) Review
9. Kindred by Octavia Butler – O F (8.5/10) Review
10. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame – O F (10/10) Re-read Review
11. Sharks by Simone Buchholz – RC FTr (9/10) Review
12. David Bowie: The Artist, The Albums, The Music by Philippe Margotin – RC NF (7.5/10) Review
13. Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise – RC F (9/10) Review
14. Sycorax by Nydia Hetherington – O* F (9/10) Review
15. Venice Requiem by Khalid Lyamlahy – O F (8/10) Review
16. The Names by Florence Knapp – O* F (10/10) Review
17. Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash – RC F
DNF: An Enigma by the Sea by Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini (215/414 pages) Comments
MARCH
18. Murder Pool by Stella Blomkvist – RC FTr (9/10) Review
19. The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien – O* F re-read (8.5/10) Comments
20. The Reaper by Vanda Symon – RC F
21. How High We Go in the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu – B F
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APRIL
22.
MAY
33.
JUNE
39.
JULY
50.
AUGUST
61.
SEPTEMBER
74.
OCTOBER
81.
NOVEMBER
91.
DECEMBER
103.
120.
GOODREADS CHALLENGE (120) FINISHED
Reading the World 2026
- Author origin: France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, UK, USA
- Language: English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian,
- Notable settings: Auckland, Bath, Belfast, Bødo, Capri, Cheltenham, Donegal, Dublin, Glasgow, Lyme Regis, Maryland, Reykjavik, Venice
