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  Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly Fiction 2023 Finished on January 23, 2026 Rating: 4.5/5 (Excellent) Publisher's Blurb: R...

  You Are Here by David Nicholls Fiction 2024 Narrated by Lee Ingleby and Lydia Leonard Finished on January 23, 2026 Rating: 4/5 (Very Good...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl . This week’s topic is technically Bookish Discoveries, but o...

  The Story of a Heart by Dr. Rachel Clarke Nonfiction 2024 Finished on January 20, 2026 Rating: 3.5/5 (Good) Publisher's Blurb: A rive...

  The Eights by Joanna Miller Fiction 2025 Finished on January 16, 2026 Rating: 4/5 (Very Good) Publisher's Blurb: Oxford, 1920. For th...

  Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg Katie Nash #1 Fiction 1993 Finished on January 7, 2026 Rating: 4/5 (Very Good) Publisher's Blurb: ...

  Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild Fiction 2025 Finished on January 6, 2026 Rating: 4.5/5 (Very Good!) Publisher's Blurb: Honor seem...

  The Maid by Nita Prose Fiction 2022 Narrated by Lauren Ambrose Finished on January 4, 2026 Rating: 3.5/5 (Good) Publisher's Blurb: Mo...

  When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen Translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies Fiction 2025 Finished on January 1, 2026 Rating: 3....

I took these screen shots before I recorded my final book* of 2025, so the stats are off by one book (which turned out to be a 5-star read) ...

  I had a really good year of reading in 2025. I surpassed my Goodreads goal of 60 books, completed a couple of reading challenges with othe...

  Amy and Isabelle ( 4.5/5 and 3/5) Abide With Me (3.5/5) Olive Kitteridge  (4/5 and 4.5/5 ) The Burgess Boys (4/5) My Name Is Lucy Bart...

  I Am I Am I Am  (4.5/5) The Marriage Portrait ( 5/5 ) Hamnet   ( 5/5 ) -- read in 2022 This Must Be the Place (2/5) Instructions For a H...