I’ve had a great reading year. My five-star reads were: The Remains of the Day, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, Miracles on Maple Hill, The Door-to-Door Bookstore, and The Travelling Cat Chronicles. I like to genre-jump but have been sticking with gentler reads since it’s been a rough year.
I did accomplish my goal of 50 reads for 2024 already, and next year, I hope to read 75.
So far, these are the ones on my 2025 list:
Lonesome Dove
Something by Anthony Trollope
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The Flame Trees of Thika
When Elephants Weep
The Wind in the Willows – I believe this will be a reread since I don’t remember anything from the first time!
Something by Charles Dickens
The Island of Sea Women
Three Men in a Boat
I don’t like romance as a main plot line or SAs or child abuse featured in a read. And I’m not fond of plots centering on adultery. It’s just not for me. Foreign, translated books have seemed to be my higher rated reads this year and dominated most of my list, and I wonder if it’s something cultural with the writing that works so well possibly.
Seeing the above list for 2025, is there anything other readers would recommend adding and why?
by Neon_Aurora451