75 Books...More or Less! discussion

Happy 2025 - here we go!!

*JANUARY*

1. Murder at King’s Crossing NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
2. The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
NetGalley Audiobook ARC 4 Stars
3. A Dedicated Man Kindle 3 Stars
4. Fantastic Lou: Little Comics from Real Life NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
5. Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé Kindle 5 Stars
6. Big Changes for Plum! NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
7. Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue NetGalley eBook & Audiobook ARC 5 Stars
8. Friends Forever NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
9. The Lost Ones NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
10. A Copycat Conundrum NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
11. The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing Paperback 4 Stars
12. The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
13. Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
14, Karolina And The Torn Curtain Kindle 5 Stars
15. Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation NetGalley eBook & Audiobook ARC's 5 Stars
16. Devices and Desires Paperback 4 Stars
17. Pride and Prejudice Kindle 5 Stars
18. My Mom NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
19. The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
20. Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future NetGalley eBook and Audiobook ARC's 2 Stars
21. Water Moon NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
22. The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime NetGalley ARC 4 Stars

Woohoo great start! I love January in that 99.9% of books are pre-2025 books lol.

Elyse wrote: "Woohoo great start! I love January in that 99.9% of books are pre-2025 books lol."

YES!!! And then we go downhill from there! LOL

*FEBRUARY*

23. Ramon Fellini the Dog Detective NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
24. Murder in Bloom NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
25. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
26. Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
27. Thread by Thread NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
28. The Quiet One NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
29. An Awkward Way to Die Kindle 5 Stars
30. Old Scores Hardcover 5 Stars
31. The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
32. The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken Paperback 5 Stars
33. The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
34. A Necessary End Kindle 3 Stars
35. The Raven Boys Kindle 5 Stars
36. Thousand Cranes Kindle 2 Stars
37. Snow Country Paperback 3 Stars
38. The Dream Thieves Kindle 5 Stars
39. Dear Moon: A beautiful gift for Ramadan and Eid, to be read by adults and children NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
40. Blue Lily, Lily Blue Kindle 5 Stars
41. The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
42. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
43. The Raven King Kindle 5 Stars

Woot killing it, Dawn Michelle!

Elyse wrote: "Woot killing it, Dawn Michelle!"

Thank you Elyse!! It's been a good couple reading months!!

*MARCH*

44. Head Full of Clouds NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
45. The Secret Detective Agency NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
46. Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
47. The Blanket Cats NetGalley ARC 1 Star
48. The Case of the Love Commandos Hardcover 4 Stars
49. Connecting Dots: A Blind Life NetGalley ARC *NO RATING*
50. How to Solve Your Own Murder Kindle 4 Stars
51. A Slash of Emerald NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
52. Opal Kindle 5 Stars
53. The Land Knows Me: A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
54. The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
55. Sin Eater Paperback 2 Stars
56. Blood Is Blood Hardcover 4 Stars
57. Murder at the Orpheus Theatre NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
58. Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
59. The Quiet Librarian NetGalley ARC *NO RATING*
60. The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
61. The Dog Across the Lake Kindle 3 Stars
62. I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free Kindle * NO RATING*
63. The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
65. Sense and Sensibility Kindle 3 Stars
66. The Tell: A Memoir NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
67. The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
68. Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
69. We Are the Scrappy Ones NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
70. I Would Give You My Tail NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
71. Hi, Earth NetGalley ARC 1 Star

*April*

72. Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
73. An Excellent Thing in a Woman NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
74. The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
75. Tough Luck NetGalley ARC *NO RATING*
76. Homicide in the Indian Hills NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
77. The Murder of Mr. Ma Kindle 4 Stars
78. A Spirited Blend NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
79. Rebellion 1776 NetGalley ARC *NO RATING*
80. Lethal Pursuit Hardcover 5 Stars
81. The Green Kingdom NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
82. Sand Cakes NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
83. The Case of the Reincarnated Client Hardcover 4 Stars
84. The Hanging Valley Paperback 2 Stars
85. Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
86. How to Reach the Moon NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
87. Not-So-Sweetie Pie NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
88. Anything NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
89. The Railway Conspiracy NetGalley Audiobook ARC 5 Stars
90. The Arts Trail Killer NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
91. For a Girl Becoming NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
92. The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
93. Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
94. Murder at Gulls Nest NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
95. Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
96. Of My Own Making: A Memoir NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
97. Death by the Book NetGalley ARC *NO RATING*
98. The Spendthrift and the Swallow Kindle 5 Stars
99. Kate & Frida NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
100. The Order of the Day Paperback 2 Stars

*May*

101. Bright Lights and Summer Nights NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
102. The Penford Manor Murders NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
103. No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
104. The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
105. Death at a Highland Wedding NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
106. We Carry the Sun NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
107. Lizzy Longlegs (3) NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
108. Murder Ballads: Illustrated Lyrics & Lore NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
109. Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
110. The Beast of Littleton Woods NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
111. Millie and the Midnight Hedgehog NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
112. How to Seal Your Own Fate NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
113. Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
114. The Tree that Was a World NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
115. Dance with Death Hardcover 3 Stars
116. The Birds of Christmas NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
117. Return to Sender: A Novel NetGalley Audiobook 3 Sars
118. The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
119. At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
120. Paris Undercover NetGalley ARC *NO RATING*
121. Two Weddings and a Murder NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
122. Blood in the Water: The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
123. The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
124. Black Tunnel White Magic: A Murder, a Detective’s Obsession, and ’90s Los Angeles at the Brink NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
125. The Cat Who Saved the Library NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
126. Written in Stone NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
127. The Woodlanders Paperback 4 Stars
128. The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines NetGalley ARC 5 Stars

*JUNE*

129. The Diva Poaches a Bad Egg NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
130. No Paw to Stand On Kindle 3 Stars
131. The Granddaughter NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
132. A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
133. Fierce Poison Hardcover 4 Stars
134. One Final Turn NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
135. The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
136. Original Sin Paperback 2 Stars
137. Cat’s Eye Paperback 2 Stars
138. A Botanist's Guide to Rituals and Revenge NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
139. Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
140. The Sailing of the Intrepid: The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy’s Iconic Aircraft Carrier NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
141. Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
142. Meet the Kellys: The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
143. This Dog Will Change Your Life NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
144. We'll Prescribe You a Cat Kindle 2 Stars
145. Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over: My Guide to Life: My Guide to Life NetGalley ARC 5 Stars

*JULY*

146. Juneteenth Paperback 2 Stars
147. The Place of Tides NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
148. Past Reason Hated Kindle 3 Stars
149. Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
150. Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
151. The Mystery of the Blue Train Paperback 4 Stars
152. Abscond Kindle 5 Stars
153. Stowaway Paperback 3 Stars
154. Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
155. Sonia Speaks Up NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
156. The Gravedigger's Almanac NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
157. The Second Chance Convenience Store NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
158. Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
159. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures Paperback 3 Stars
160. The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover
NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
161. Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
162. Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
163. Bloody Mary: A Graphic Biography of Mary Tudor NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
164. The Big Snowdown NetGalley ARC
165. Ew, It's Beautiful: A False Knees Comic Collection NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
166. The Monster in the Lake NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
167. Mayhem at the Museum NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
168. The Big Empty: A Sagebrush Survival Story NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
169. Fly Like a Bird (Spectacular STEAM for Curious Readers NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
170. Our Corner Grocery Store NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
171. Camping in the Wild (Volume 8) NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
172. The World Entire: A True Story of an Extraordinary World War II Rescue NetGalley ARC 5 Stars

*AUGUST*

173. The Nature of the Beast Kindle 5 Stars
174. Tea with Jam & Dread NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
175. Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
176. The Homemade God NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
177. Rainbow Fish and the Great Escape NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
178. A Spoonful of the Sea NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
179. 9 Little People NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
180. My Grandma and Grandpa Rock! NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
181. Chloe and the Bossy Cloud: A Children’s Book About OCD NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
182. Super Business! NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
183. Murder at the Wham Bam Club NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
184. The Chalice of the Gods Kindle 4 Stars
185. The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
186. Moon Bear Print Book [HC] 5 Stars
187. 12 Little Elves Visit Michigan NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
188. Seven Secret Spellcasters NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
189. The Convenience Store by the Sea NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
190. Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery Print Book [PB] 3 Stars
191. The Night Giant NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
192. Murder on Platform Four NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
193. In Pieces Print Book [HC] 5 Stars
194. Dear Miss Lake NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
195. The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
196. For Duck's Sake NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
197. The Blue Castle Kindle 5 Stars
198. The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
199. The Misplaced Physician NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
200. Persuasion Kindle 5 Stars
201. Down to the Bone: A Missing Family's Murder and the Elusive Quest for Justice NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
202. Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
203. American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
204. The Long-Lost Locket Kindle 4 Stars

*September*

205. To Be Where You Are Kindle 5 Stars
206. Biggest Fake in the Universe Kindle NetGalley Audiobook ARC 3 Stars
207. Season of Death NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
208. From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
209. The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
210. A Moment's Shadow NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
211. Just Another Dead Author NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
212. Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
213. Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
214. Tuck Everlasting Kindle NetGalley Audiobook ARC 2/4 Stars
215. The Experiment NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
216. A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
217. A Beginner's Guide to Dying NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
218. Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
219. Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
220. Go Go Dodo! NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
221. A Great Reckoning Kindle 5 Stars
222. Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
223. The Lonely Man: A Detective Jimmy Perez Short Story Kindle 5 Stars
224. The Killing Stones NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
225. Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
226. Welcome to Cottonmouth NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
227. Glass Houses Kindle 5 Stars
228. Tiger Slayer: The Extraordinary Story of Nur Jahan, Empress of India NetGalley ARC 2 Stars

You are amazing Dawn!

Andrea wrote: "You are amazing Dawn!"

Thank you SO much Andrea!! I've read some really amazing books this year!!

*OCTOBER*

229. The Newest Gnome NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
230. Kingdom of the Blind Kindle 5 Stars
231. Murder on the Marlow Belle NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
232. Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
233. Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
234. Murder at Somerset House NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
235. when the world is puddle-wonderful NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
236. The Five Wolves NetGalley ARC *NO RATING*
237. Lena the Chicken NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
238. Brie Careful What You Wish For Kindle 3 Stars
239. Zohran Walks New York NetGalley ARC 4 stars
240. A Waffle Lot of Love! NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
241. The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
242. Miss Morton and the Missing Heir NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
243. Mika and the Chiller NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
244. A Better Man Kindle 5 Stars
245. The Old Sleigh NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
246. The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
247. One Way Witch NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
248. Five Golden Wings NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
249. Rear Window: The Making of a Hitchcock Masterpiece in the Hollywood Golden Age NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
250. Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring Heist NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
251. Dating Can Be Deadly Kindle 4 Stars
252. Guilty by Definition Kindle/NetGalley Audiobook 5 Stars
253. All the Devils Are Here Kindle 5 Stars
254. Death on a Scottish Train NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
255. Nothing but Courage: The 82nd Airborne's Daring D-Day Mission—and Their Heroic Charge Across the La Fière Bridge NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
256. The Shattered King NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
257. John Hancock: First to Sign, First to Invest in America's Independence NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
258. The Menu of Happiness NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
259. The Roll-Away Pumpkin Kindle Fire 5 Stars

*November*

260. The Madness of Crowds Kindle 5 Stars
261. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
262. Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging NetGalley ARC 3 Stars
263. A Novel Murder NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
264. The Very Fine Clock NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
265. The Uncool: A Memoir NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
266. Two Truths and a Murder NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
267. Best Wishes From the Full Moon Coffee Shop NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
268. The Treasure of Ocean Parkway NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
269. You Feta Watch Out Kindle 4 Stars
270. Days at the Torunka Café NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
271.Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien NetGalley ARC 2 Stars
272. A World of Curiosities Kindle 5 Stars
273. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald Kindle 5 Stars
274. Vagabond: A Memoir NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
275. Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
276. Xolo NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
277. The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
278. The Hidden City NetGalley 2 Stars
279. The High Tide Murder NetGalley ARC 5 Stars
280. Murder Bears Fruit NetGalley ARC 4 Stars
281. False Claims: One Insider’s Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption NetGalley ARC 1 Star