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
17. Murder Most Fair - Anna Lee Huber
18. Food For Thought: Essays and Ruminations - Alton Brown
19. Before Beauty - Brittany Fichter
20. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year - Margaret Renkl
21. The Terrifying Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
22. Someone You Can Build a Nest In - John Wiswell
23. While the City Sleeps - Elizabeth Camden
24. Monet For Nothing - PJ Fitzsimmons
25. A Holiday By Gaslight - Mimi Matthews
26. No Two Persons - Erica Bauermeister
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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)
11. Murder Most Fair - Anna Lee Huber (1919 England)
12. While the City Sleeps - Elizabeth Camden (1913 New York City)
13. Monet For Nothing - PJ Fitzsimmons (1920s Paris)
14. A Holiday By Gaslight - Mimi Matthews (1880s England)
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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
3. Title starts with the letter M - Murder Most Fair by Anna Lee Huber
4. Title starts with the letter N - No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
5. Plot includes a heist - Monet For Nothing by PJ Fitzsimmons
11. A prequel - The Wedding Gift by Connilyn Cossette
12. Has a moon on the cover - While the City Sleeps by Elizabeth Camden
13. Title is 10 letters or less - Black Fog by KT McWilliams
18. A character who can fly - The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
19. Has short chapters - The Blind Scribe by Connilyn Cossette
20. A fairy tale retelling - Before Beauty by Brittany Fichter
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
25. Breaks the fourth wall - The Terrifying Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
33. A Standalone Novel - Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell
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
43. Explores social class - A Holiday By Gaslight by Mimi Matthews
44. A celebrity on the cover - Food For Thought: Essays and Ruminations by Alton Brown
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
While the City Sleeps features a police officer for Pick Your Costume
Someone You Can Build A Nest In has both a sugary sweet and a mischievous character for Pick Your Treat
The Terrifying Tales is Pick Your Scare Level: Keep You Up All Night
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.
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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
5. +/- 30 pages from the previous book - Murder Most Fair by Anna Lee Huber
6. Similar title font to the previous book - Food For Thought by Alton Brown
7. Author shares name with character from previous book - While the City Sleeps by Elizabeth Camden
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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 - A Holiday By Gaslight - Mimi Matthews
B - Black Fog - KT McWilliams
C - The Comfort of Crows - Margaret Renkl
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 - Someone You Can Build A Nest In - John Wiswell
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 -
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