My Reading list for 2025

 Lucy has been with us a year now so its appropriate to have a picture featuring her being read a bedtime story. Like me, she enjoys a good mystery with unexpected twists. Oh, who am I kidding - she'll listen to anything.

I think I'm reading slower these days. And I often don't make myself finish a book I'm not enjoying. But let's see what happens. Again, lots of books I regret wasting time reading, so an asterisk shows which ones were worth it. Or maybe my eyes are being much more critical than normal. 

1. You're Wearing That?                  Deborah Tannen
2. Before the Coffee gets Cold        Toshikazu Kawaguchi 
3. Anxious People                           Fredrick Backman *
   
4. Writing your story them              KM Weiland
5. Atlas of the Heart                        Brene Brown
6. the Librarianist                            Pete DeWitt
7. Mr Churchhill's Seretary             Susan MacNeal
8. The Queens of Crime                  Marie Benedict *
9. the Midnight Library                   Matt Haig
10. the Great Gatsby                          FS Fitzgerald
11. the Salt Path                                 Raynor Winn *
    
12. Mauled                                         Jeremy Evans *
    
13. the Little Prince                            Antoine deSaintExupery
14. The Book of Small                       Emily Carr *
    
15. These Precious Days                   Ann Patchett
16. You took the last bus Home        Brian Bilston *
    
17. Tom Lake                                    Ann Patchett *
18. We could be Rats                         Emily Austen
19. Rough & Messy Justice              Keith Regular
20. the Whispers                               Ashley Audrain
21. Poles Apart                                 Terry Fallis *
22. the Dirty Knees of Prayer           Timothy Shay
23. the Happiness Project                 Gretchen Rubin 
24. One Perfect Couple                    Ruth Ware *
    
25. My Friends                                 Fredrick Backman *
26. Daisy Jones and the Six             Taylor Jenkins Reid *
27. My sister, the Serial Killer         Oyinkan Braithwaite
28. Murder in a heat wave                Gretchen Sprague
29. the river has roots                       Amal el-Mohtar
30. Julie Chan is Dead                      Liann Zhang
31. the Rose Code                             Kate Quinn *
32. Up and Down                              Terry Fallis **
33. Going Dark                                  Melissa delaCruz
34. Beautiful Ugly                             Alice Feeny