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2025 Reading Intentions: Reading For Fun!

Challenge Links:
🔤Annual Challenge

Series to Continue and/or Finish: (view spoiler)[
Mystery
The Thursday Murder Club 2/4 by Richard Osman
Secret Lives 1/2 by Mark de Castrique
Ministry is Murder 1/5 by Emilie Richards
Wrexford & Sloane 3/9 by Andrea Penrose
Master Mercurius Mysteries 3/7 by Graham Brack
Sunshine Vicram Series 1/3 by Darynda Jones

Cozy Mystery
Miss Fortune Mystery: Louisiana Longshot 3/25 by Jane Deleon
The Cambridge Bookshop 1/5 by Elizabeth Penney

Fantasy
Charley Davidson Series 3/13 by Darynda JonesJuno Dawson
Her Majesty's Royal Coven 1/3 by Juno Dawson
The Samuel Johnson series 1/3 by John Connolly
The Chronicles of Prydain Series 1/5 by Lloyd Alexander

Romance
Magic Hollow 2/4 by Ali K.Mulford
Prickle Island Zoo 0/4 by Ali K.Mulford

Series to Start:
Dublin Trilogy by 0/8 by Caimh McDonnell
The Ill-Mannered Ladies Series 0/2 by Alison Goodman
Meg Langslow 0/33 by Donna Andrews
Lila Maclean Academic Mystery 0/5 by Cynthia Kuhn
Magical Cat Mystery 0/15 by Sofie Kelly
Gentleman Bastard Series o/4 by Scott Lynch
Mystery Bookshop Series 0/11 by V.M. Burns
Pax 0/2 by by Sara Pennypacker Burns (hide spoiler)]

2025 New Releases
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❄️January 2025 Reads❄️



What a great start to 2025. I finished the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series. I know there is another book in the series releasing the end of 2025. I will not be continuing. The bloom is off the rose.

January 2025 Stats: 8 Fiction/ 2 Nonfiction Read
- ★★★★★ -
5 - ★★★★ - Impossible Creatures,What You Are Looking For Is in the Library,Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures,The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,The Little Lost Library
4 - ★★★ - The September House, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, The Villain Edit,The Grey Wolf
1 - ★★ - The Ministry of Time
- ★ -
2 - DNF - The Library Mule of Cordoba,There's Something About Mira
Year Total: 8 Fiction/ 2 Nonfiction

💗February 2025 Reads💗



This ended up being a great reading month primarily due to being trapped in the house because of a snow storm and dogsitting for my brother for two weeks. I think it might be a record.

February 2025 Stats: 11 Fiction/ 3 Nonfiction Read
2- ★★★★★ - Somewhere Beyond the Sea The Wedding People
4 - ★★★★ - The Twelve Dogs of Christmas, The Women, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time, Babylonia, The Lost Story
4 - ★★★ - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide, The Stolen QueenFate of the Fallen, Definitely Better Now
1 - ★★ - The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern, Under the Golden Sun
- ★ -
1 - DNF - The Paris Library
Year Total: 19 Fiction/ 5 Nonfiction

☘️March 2025 Reads☘️



It was a good reading month. I read a lot of my kindle first picks and realized that most of them were blah.

March 2025 Stats: 11 Fiction/ 1 Nonfiction Read
1 - ★★★★★ - The Ragged Edge of Night
5 - ★★★★ - How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time, The Karma Map, I Think We've Been Here Before, Zorrie
3 - ★★★ - Pride of Lancashire, The Quiet American, Elbow Room
3 - ★★ - Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, Gone to Pot, The Astronaut and the Star
- ★ -
- DNF -
Year Total: 29 Fiction/ 6 Nonfiction

☔April 2025 Reads☔



Busy month, but did manage to read a few books 😉

April 2025 Stats: 8 Fiction/ Nonfiction Read
- ★★★★★ -
5 - ★★★★ - The Connellys of County Down , North Woods, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame, Jennie, Black Woods Blue Sky
2 - ★★★ - The Teller of Small Fortunes, Your Perfect Year, The Spectacular
- ★★ -
- ★ -
- DNF -
Year Total: 37 Fiction/ 6 Nonfiction

💐May 2025 Reads 💐



Thank God for long plane rides or I wouldn't have read anything this month. :)

May 2025 Stats: 5 Fiction/ Nonfiction Read
- ★★★★★ -
1 - ★★★★ - The Final Game
4 - ★★★ - In Five Years, The Summer Guests, Anita de Monte Laughs Last, Most Wonderful
1 - ★★ - We'll Prescribe You a Cat
- ★ -
- DNF -
Year Total: 43 Fiction/ 6 Nonfiction

🌹June 2025 Reads🌹



This was a great reading month mainly due to the June team Toppler - Thanks, Kristie.

June 2025 Stats: 15 Fiction/ 1 Nonfiction Read
3 - ★★★★★ - First Lie Wins, The Road to Tender Hearts, The Lilac People
5 - ★★★★ - A Bad Day for Sunshine, Love & Saffron, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, The Listeners, The God of the Woods
6 - ★★★ - The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally, Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out, The Girl in White, Float Up, Sing Down: Stories, What Happened to the McCrays?, Great Big Beautiful Life
2 - ★★ - Night Watch, Colored Television
- ★ -
- DNF -
Year Total: 58 Fiction/ 7 Nonfiction

🎆July 2025 Reads🎆



It was a good reading month. I read a variety of genres and a few duds.

July 2025 Stats: 9 Fiction/ 4 Nonfiction Read
2- ★★★★★ - Memorial Days, Say You'll Remember Me
5 - ★★★★ - The Widows’ Guide to Murder, Wild Dark Shore, Beyond Booze: How to create a life you love alcohol-free, True Places, Tin Man, Raising Hare: A Memoir
3- ★★★ - The Personal Librarian, First-Time Caller, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
2 - ★★ - Public Anchovy #1, The Candid Life of Meena Dave
- ★ -
1 - DNF - Water Moon
Year Total: 66 Fiction/ 11 Nonfiction

I'm considering Broken Country or Wild Dark Shore for the monthly challenge as well. I'm kind of torn with all the options. These two are from The Wedding People. But that's just a starting point.

😎August 2025 Reads😎




Great reading month. I read several 5 star reads and made a dent in badge 4 for the annual challenge - hoping to knock it out in October.

August 2025 Stats: 13 Fiction/ 1 Nonfiction Read
4 - ★★★★★ - How to Age Disgracefully, Pied Piper, I See You've Called in Dead, My Friends
3 - ★★★★ - Atmosphere, Among Friends, Sipsworth
5 - ★★★ - Dept. of Speculation, Dog on It, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, The Collaborators, The Thirty Names of Night, The Amalfi Curse
1 - ★★ - Becoming Ted
- ★ -
- DNF -
Year Total: 79 Fiction/ 12 Nonfiction

🍎September 2025 Reads🍎



Another great reading month. I am close to finishing badge 4 of the annual challenge. Only problem is all those great October spooky books are beckoning.

Sept 2025 Stats: 11 Fiction/ Nonfiction Read
1 - ★★★★★ - Playground
5 - ★★★★ - The Book of Three, The Midnight Library, Project Hail Mary, The Man Who Died Twice, What Kind of Paradise
3 - ★★★ - Kindred, Martyr!, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
1 - ★★ - Hollow KingdomThe Museum of Ordinary People
- ★ -
- DNF -
Year Total: 90 Fiction/ 12 Nonfiction

🎃October 2025 Reads 🎃



I did a lot of "Just Because" reading this month mainly because it seemed like every book I put on hold at the library became available. Not a bad thing, but I was hoping to knock out badge 4 of the YLTO annual challange in October. Oh well, there is always November.

Oct 2025 Stats: 10 Fiction/ Nonfiction Read
- ★★★★★ -
4 - ★★★★ - Third Grave Dead Ahead, Curses & Cold Brew, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife, Heartwood
3 - ★★★ - We All Live Here, Amity, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
2 - ★★ - The Secret of Secrets, Snowy Surprises in the Highlands
1 - ★ - The Librarian of the Haunted Library
- DNF -
Year Total: 100 Fiction/ 12 Nonfiction

🍂November 2025 Possibilities 🍂

CHALLENGES
People Like Us - annual and Nov author
The History of Sound - annual and Nov author
Into the Beautiful North - annual and Nov author
The Emperor of Gladness - annual and Nov author
🍂Wandering Stars
🍂Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
The Poisoned King - Nov author
🍂Holiday Romance
The Book of Witching - Nov author
🍂She's a Keeper
🍂These Summer Storms
🍂Haunted Ever After
🍂Good Spirits
🍂Murder at Melrose Court
🍂The Correspondent

JUST BECAUSE

Oct 2025 Stats: 9 Fiction/ Nonfiction Read
1 - ★★★★★ - The Correspondent
3 - ★★★★ - Wandering Stars, Haunted Ever After, Holiday Romance
4 - ★★★ - These Summer Storms, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Good Spirits, Murder at Melrose Court
1 - ★★ - She's a Keeper
- ★ -
- DNF -
Year Total: 109 Fiction/ 12 Nonfiction