All About Books discussion

What have you all have planned for the first month of 2025?

Here's my tentative plan:

Finish up from last month:
✔ Happening by Annie Ernaux ★★★★★ (4.5)

Definitely:
in progress 56% Augustus by John Williams
in progress 18% There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
✔ The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens ★★★ (3.0)
✔ Luster by Raven Leilani ★★★★ (3.5)

Probably:
Curtain by Agatha Christie
✔ The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk ★★★★★ (5.0)

Possibly:
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

Unplanned:
in progress 43% The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
in progress 36% Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Finish up someday (maybe this month, maybe another):
in progress 28% Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
in progress 36% The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart

Delayed from Prior Months, Get to Someday:
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
The Quest For Tanelorn by Michael Moorcock
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Difficoult to know! My life is at the moment a bit of a mess, mainly for work! Anyway, something I'll be reading...
Let's see:
Finish up from last month:
Tirzah Price  Pride and Premeditation
Göran Tunström L'oratorio di Natale

Definitly:
Mirinae Lee Le otto vite di una centenaria senza nome
Elif Shafak There Are Rivers in the Sky Reading now

Possibly:
Ben Lerner Topeka School
Frida Skybäck La piccola libreria sul Tamigi
Nino Haratischwili La gatta e il generale
Agatha Christie Curtain: Poirot's Last Case Reading now
Louise Penny The Grey Wolf
Antonio Manzini Il passato è un morto senza cadavere
Elizabeth Strout  Tell Me Everything
Fred Vargas Sulla pietra
A.J. Cronin  The Keys of the Kingdom
Stacey Abrams Rogue Justice Reading now

Have you read previous books of Lucy Barton series Laura?
I finished them in November, I liked Anything is Possible and Lucy by the Sea most.

My plans for this month are a mixture of things I want to finally finish, books I need to deliver at the library shortly, and things I need to read for the next semester and should get started on as soon as possible.

Fiction:
Isaak Babel: Fortellinger fra Odessa (87/215)
Marcel Proust: Du côté de chez Swann (167/618)
Jeanette Winterson: Night Side of the River
Elif Batuman: The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Dobbeltgjengeren

Non-fiction:
Claudio Magris: Donau: En reise fra Schwarzwald til Svartehavet (71/511)
Matthew Lassiter: The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (143/329)
Aughey/Oakland: Irish Civilization: An Introduction (6/333)
Storry/Childs (ed): British Cultural Identities (162/313)
Haruki Murakami: Yrke forfatter
Øiving Bratberg: Falmet fløyel i London

@Maria, interested to see what you think of Night Side of the River! I'd like to read more Winterson.