2025 Books

I think I set a new  record for me in 2025.  35 Books!!!  To some, that's peanuts as some people read that many books in a month! But to someone who just a few years ago, barely read 6 books in a year, I'm pretty happy with myself.  

You'll see from the book covers that I am missing 3 books...I don't know how for the life of me I missed them but the others were:

Rules for Fake Girlfriends - Reagan Revord (read after Black Bear)
The Widow - John Grisham (last book I read)
Boldness & Battlescars - Brittnay Collins (read before Huckleberry Finn)

I read 5 biographies, include 2 by Osmonds!  I loved the Cher book and I'm looking forward to part 2 of that that will be released in November 2025 (I believe) and Tim Curry's book. His book was so fun, he's got such a great sense of humor.  The only biography and only book I didn't really enjoy was surprisingly Sally Field's.  It was more about her mother than her, in my opinion.  It was just OK but I wouldn't really recommend it.  

I read 2 classics - Huckleberry Finn and Frankenstein and really loved Frankenstein...it was totally different than I expected it to be.  You might include Swan House in there too.  It is an older book (2001) but I don't if it is really defined as a classic.  I enjoyed that book a lot, because it took place in Atlanta and I recognized every place they were talking about and I learned a lot of history, especially about the High Museum and Woodruff's Art Center that I didn't know before.  

I never realized it until this year, but I really like Historical Fiction books.  The Lion Women of Tehran, James, Swan House, The Stolen Queen, The God of the Woods, Broken Country, The Queen of Sugar Hill, The Story She Left Behind, The Book Club for Troublesome Women, My Friends & The Correspondent fell into this category.

I even read 2 political books, which is something I usually never do. I also read 3 religious non-fiction books.

I can usually pick a favorite book but this year was really hard because I pretty much loved all of them.  I guess my least favorite novel was probably The Stolen Queen.  It was ok, but the subject matter didn't appeal to me a great deal I guess some of my faves were Theo of Golden, about a man who shares happiness and joy to others, The Queen of Sugar Hill, which is a fiction book about the life of Hattie McDaniel, but it contained a lot of true facts about her, The Bookclub from Troublesome Women, about a group of female friends and their lives in the early 1960s, & The River Is Waiting, about a man, who serves time in prison after he accidentally kills one of his twin children...it was sad, very sad, but a good story.

Did you read any fun books in 2025??