2025 Reading List and Challenges

 

I fell short of my goal last year, reading fewer books than ever, and I do plan to do better this year! To be fair to myself, I also started working full time in 2024, which challenged my available time. Here's where I'll track this year's completed books.

1. Harvest of Gold - Tessa Afshar

2. Mountain Interval - Robert Frost

3. Frauds On Favourite - PJ Fitzsimmons

4. The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa

5. A Deceptive Composition - Anna Lee Huber

6. The Work of Art - Mimi Matthews

7. Black Fog - KT McWilliams

8. The Wedding Gift - Connilyn Cossette

9. Killers of a Certain Age - Deanna Raybourn

10. The Blind Scribe - Connilyn Cossette

11. Jane of Lantern Hill - L.M. Montgomery

12. The Highland Heist - Pepper Basham

13. The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer - Ragnar Jónasson

14. 10 Marchfield Square - Nicola Whyte

15. Village Books - Craig McLay

16. No Safe Harbor - Elizabeth Ludwig

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The Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2025 is hosted by The Intrepid Reader and Baker. More often than not, I choose historical fiction, but I will list the reads that I link up in this challenge here as well.

1. Harvest of Gold - Tessa Afshar (ancient Persia/Israel)

2. Frauds on Favourite - PJ Fitzsimmons (1920s England)

3. A Deceptive Composition - Anna Lee Huber (1832 Cornwall, England)

4. The Work of Art - Mimi Matthews (Regency England)

5. Black Fog - KT McWilliams (1618 London)

6. The Wedding Gift - Connilyn Cossette (ancient Israel)

7. The Blind Scribe - Connilyn Cossette (ancient Israel)

8. Jane of Lantern Hill - L.M. Montgomery (1920s Canada)

9. The Highland Heist - Pepper Basham (1910s USA and Scotland)

10. No Safe Harbor - Elizabeth Ludwig (1896 USA)

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The 52 Book Club's 2025 Reading Challenge

Once again I'm just going to have fun and do my best and see how many I can check off the list. And if it's not all 52 I'm perfectly fine with that. Find out more about the 2025 Reading Challenge HERE, and check out the 2025 Reading Challenge Guide too.

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1.  A book with a pun in the title - Frauds On Favourite by PJ FItzsimmons

2.  A character with red hair - The Highland Heist by Pepper Basham

11. A prequel - The Wedding Gift by Connilyn Cossette

13. Title is 10 letters or less - Black Fog by KT McWilliams

19. Has short chapters - The Blind Scribe by Connilyn Cossette

21. Character's name in the title - Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery

22. Found Family Trope - No Safe Harbor by Elizabeth Ludwig

35. Written in third person - The Work of Art by Mimi Matthews

36. Final sentence is less than 6 words long - The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa

37. A genre chosen for me by someone else - Mountain Interval by Robert Frost

39. Has an epigraph - A Deceptive Composition by Anna Lee Huber

40. Stream of consciousness narrative - Village Books by Craig McLay

41. Cover font is a primary color - Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

49. Set in a country with an active volcano - The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer - Ragnar Jónasson

51. A book that is 300-400 pages long - Harvest of Gold by Tessa Afshar

52. Published in 2025 - 10 Marchfield Square by Nicola Whyte

Any mini-challenges I complete will be listed here as well.

The Goodbye Cat features a wise character and is by an Asian author for prompts #2 and #3 in the Lunar New Year Mini-Challenge

The Wedding Gift has a leafy green cover for the "Seasonal Salad" Starter prompt in the May Mini-Challenge

Very little chance I'll be able to complete the summer challenge, but I will continue to work on it at least through the end of the year. This is The 52 Book Club's Connections Challenge.

1. Pick any book - Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

2. Title shares a word with previous title - Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery

3. Set in the country where the previous author was born (Canada) - Village Books by Craig McLay

4. Published the same year as the previous book (2012) - No Safe Harbor by Elizabeth Ludwig

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2025 Alphabet Soup Challenge

To read a book beginning with each letter of the alphabet (plus a couple of extra little challenges)

A - 

B - Black Fog - KT McWilliams

C - 

D - A Deceptive Composition - Anna Lee Huber

E - 

F - Frauds On Favourite - PJ Fitzsimmons

G - The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa

H - The Highland Heist - Pepper Basham

I - 

J - Jane of Lantern Hill - L.M. Montgomery

K - Killers of a Certain Age - Connilyn Cossette

L - 

M - Mountain Interval - Robert Frost

N - No Safe Harbor - Elizabeth Ludwig

O - 

P - 

Q -

R - 

S - 

T - The Wedding Gift - Connilyn Cossette

U - 

V - Village Books - Craig McLay

W - The Work of Art - Mimi Matthews

X -

Y -

Z -

Number in the title - 10 Marchfield Square - Nicola Whyte

Color in the title - Harvest of Gold - Tessa Afshar

Animal in the title - The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa

One Word title -