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Your end of year top 5 - 10 books for 2025 - INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS
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The Norfolk Theatre Murders by Judi Daykin
Dead Silence by John W. Mefford
Say Goodbye for Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Mountains Between Us by Imogen Martin
Little Child Gone by Stacy Green
Little Children by Angela Marsons
Scarlet Carnation by Laila Ibrahim
The Couple's Secret by Lisa Regan
Every Bend in the River by Emerson Ford
When Shadows Fall by Neil Lancaster
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The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley2.
A Taste of Witchcraft by Patricia Finney3.
Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd4.
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky5.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar6.
Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood7.
Framed in Death by J.D. Robb8.
The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson9.
Clown Town by Mick Herron10.
Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbø
Here are mine
Remember When: Clarissa's Story Mary Balogh
The Kill List Nadine Matheson
Frightened to Depths K.B. Jackson
Made to Love You Nan Reinhardt
A Roman Shadow H.L. Marsay
What Happens at the Beach… Rachael Stewart
The Girl Who Never Gave Up Kate Hewitt
The Body at the Roman Baths Kate Hardy
Challenging Her Protector Charlee James
How to Get Even Pippa Roscoe
A Very English Christmas Jane Porter
My international top 10 
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Water by John Boyne (and the other 3 books in the series!)
Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell
The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu
Too Soon by Betty Shamieh
The Bride Stone by Sally Gardner
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem
My international 5 star reads for this year, in the order I read them:1.
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende2.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen3.
Orbital by Samantha Harvey4.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 5.
James by Percival Everett6.
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim7.
Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship by Bee Rowlatt8.
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak9.
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
My top ten in no particular order:
- Absolution by Alice McDermott
- Hunted by Abir Mukherjee
- Evil Games by Angela Marsons
- The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths
- The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
- The Island by Ragnar Jónasson
- Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue by Buddy Levy
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
- The Madonna of The Mountains by Elise Valmorbida
My reading has been really heavily skewed towards local authors in 2025, so I don't even have 10 for this list! None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell (re-read)
The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel (re-read; slow read)
Ripeness by Sarah Moss
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With another year almost over here at Aussie Readers it's that time again to list your top 5 - 10 International author titles. The books don't have to be released this year but only to be read.
As we missed posting the mid year lists, this one will be for your whole year (2025) of reading.