2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Goal is 325

1 - 50:

1. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk - 1/1/25 - 4* - My Review
2. Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 1/2/25 - 4* - My Review
3. Toward Eternity by Anton Hur - 1/3/25 - 4* - My Review
4. In Winter I Get Up at Night by Jane Urquhart - 1/4/25 - 4* - My Review
5. The Box by Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 1/5/25 - 3* - My Review
6. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips - 1/6/25 - 4* - My Review
7. Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright - 1/7/25 - 4* - My Review
8. The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable - 1/8/25 - 4* - My Review
9. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski - 1/9/25 - 4* - My Review
10. Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo - 1/10/25 - 4* - My Review
11. Greenwood by Michael Christie - 1/11/25 - 4* - My Review
12. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell - 1/12/25 - 4* - My Review
13. Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay - 1/13/25 - 4* - My Review
14. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis - 1/14/25 - 4* - My Review
15. Miracle Country by Kendra Atleework - 1/15/25 - 4* - My Review
16. Fatherland by Robert Harris - 1/16/25 - 4* - My Review
17. Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir - 1/17/25 - 4* - My Review
18. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice - 1/18/25 - 3* - My Review
19. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey - 1/19/25 - 4* - My Review
20. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic by Adam Shoalts - 1/20/25 - 4.5* - My Review
21. Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon - 1/21/25 - 3.5* - My Review
22. All the Glimmering Stars by Mark T. Sullivan - 1/22/25 - 5* - My Review
23. The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara - 1/23/25 - 4* - My Review
24. State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg - 1/24/25 - 3* - My Review
25. The Book of George by Kate Greathead - 1/25/25 - 4* - My Review
26. My Work by Olga Ravn - 1/26/25 - 3* - My Review
27. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides - 1/27/25 - 5* - My Review
28. Godwin by Joseph O'Neill - 1/28/25 - 4* - My Review
29. Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum - 1/29/25 - 4* - My Review
30. Jack by Marilynne Robinson - 1/30/25 - 3* - My Review
31. The Rest Is Memory by Lily Tuck - 1/30/25 - 3* - My Review
32. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - 1/31/25 - 4* -My Review
33. Ulysses S. Grant by Josiah Bunting - 1/31/25 - 4* - My Review
34. Heartwood by Amity Gaige - 2/1/25 - 4* - My Review
35. Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen - 2/2/25 - 4* - My Review
36. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
37. All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
38. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari - 2/4/25 - 4.5* - My Review
39. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - 2/4/25 - 3* - My Review
40. The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor - 2/5/25 - 4* - My Review
41. Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen Fisher - 2/6/25 - 4* - My Review
42. King William's War: The First Contest for North America, 1689–1697 by Michael G. Laramie - 2/6/25 - 4* - My Review
43. Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity by Steven Shwartz - 2/7/25 - 4* - My Review
44. Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik - 2/7/25 - 4* - My Review
45. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham - 2/8/25 - 5* - My Review
46. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf - 2/9/25 - 4* - My Review
47. Gliff by Ali Smith - 2/9/25 - 4* - My Review
48. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick - 2/10/25 - 4.5 - My Review
49. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May - 2/11/25 - 4* - My Review
50. We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler - 2/12/25 - 4* - My Review

51 - 100:

51. Horizon by Barry Lopez - 2/13/25 - 5* - My Review
52. Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende - 2/14/25 - 2* - My Review
53. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - 2/15/25 - 5* - My Review
54. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum - 2/16/25 - 4* - My Review
55. Secret Son by Laila Lalami - 2/17/25 - 3.5* - My Review
56. A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of Ai by Max Solomon Bennett - 2/17/25 - 4* - My Review
57. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich - 2/18/25 - 4* - My Review
58. The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler - 2/19/25 - 2* - My Review
59. Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue by Buddy Levy - 2/19/25 - 5* - My Review
60. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville - 2/20/25 - 3.5 - My Review
61. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich - 2/20/25 - 4* - My Review
62. Mbaqanga Nights by Leonora Meriel - 2/21/25 - 4* - My Review
63. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks - 2/21/25 - 4* - My Review
64. An Ivy Hill Christmas by Julie Klassen - 2/22/25 - 3* - My Review
65. The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling - 2/22/25 - 4* - My Review
66. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller - 2/23/25 - 3.5* - My Review
67. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb - 2/24/25 - 5* - My Review
68. Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley - 2/25/25 - 4* - My Review
69. A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn - 2/25/25 - 3* - My Review
70. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell - 2/26/25 - 4* - My Review
71. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger and John Hawks - 2/27/25 - 4* - My Review
72. Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane - 2/27/25 - 4* - My Review
73. Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition by Stephen R. Bown - 2/28/25 - 4* - My Review
74. The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry L. Hunt - 2/28/25 - 4* - My Review
75. We Do Not Part by Han Kang - 3/1/25 - 4* - My Review
76. Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey - 3/2/25 - 3* - My Review
77. Three Wild Dogs by Markus Zusak - 3/3/25 - 4* - My Review
78. Devil Is Fine by John Vercher - 3/4/25 - 5* - My Review
79. Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renee DiResta - 3/5/25 - 4* - My Review
80. The Escape by Lisa Harris - 3/6/25 - 3* - My Review
81. Dissolution by C.J. Sansom - 3/7/25 - 4* - My Review
82. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith - 3/8/25 - 3* - My Review
83. The Voyage Home by Pat Barker - 3/9/25 - 4* - My Review
84. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy - 3/9/25 - 3* - My Review
85. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 3/10/25 - 4* - My Review
86. Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen - 3/11/25 - 4* - My Review
87. Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman - 3/12/25 - 3* - My Review
88. Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell - 3/13/25 - 5* - My Review
89. An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson - 3/14/25 - 2* - My Review
90. Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers - 3/14/25 - 4* - My Review
91. The Iron Heel by Jack London - 3/15/25 - 4* - My Review
92. The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz - 3/16/25 - 3* - My Review
93. The Wedding People by Alison Espach - 3/17/25 - 4* - My Review
94. Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers - 3/18/25 - 4* - My Review
95. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami - 3/19/25 - 4* - My Review
96. The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing - 3/19/25 - 3* - My Review
97. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - 3/20/25 - 4* - My Review
98. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron - 3/20/25 - 3.5* - My Review
99. The Family Experiment by John Marrs - 3/21/25 - 3* - My Review
100. Delta-v by Daniel Suarez - 3/22/25 - 4.5* - My Review

101 - 150:

101. Precipice by Robert Harris - 3/23/25 - 4.5* - My Review
102. Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke - 3/24/25 - 4* - My Review
103. The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl - 3/25/25 - 4* - My Review
104. The Missing by Tim Gautreaux - 3/26/25 - 4* - My Review
105. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 3/27/25 - 4.5* - My Review
106. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks - 3/28/25 - 4* - My Review
107. Good Girl by Aria Aber - 3/29/25 - 3.5* - My Review
108. The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré - 3/29/25 - 4.5* - My Review
109. Universality by Natasha Brown - 3/30/25 - 4* - My Review
110. Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom - 3/30/25 - 4* - My Review
111. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy - 3/31/25 - 4* - My Review
112. The Echoes by Evie Wyld - 3/31/25 - 3* - My Review
113. The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell - 4/1/25 - 4* - My Review
114. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson - 4/2/25 - 4* - My Review
115. Twist by Colum McCann - 4/3/25 - 5* - My Review
116. Three Days in June by Anne Tyler - 4/4/25 - 4* - My Review
117. The Life Impossible by Matt Haig - 4/5/25 - 3* - My Review
118. Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre - 4/6/25 - 4* - My Review
119. The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig - 4/7/25 - 3.5* - My Review
120. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer - 4/8/25 - 4* - My Review
121. Liars by Sarah Manguso - 4/9/25 - 3* - My Review
122. Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling - 4/10/25 - 4.5 - My Review
123. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett - 4/11/25 - 3* - My Review
124. The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer - 4/12/25 - 4* - My Review
125. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett - 4/13/25 - 3* - My Review
126. Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur by Bernard Cornwell - 4/14/25 - 4* - My Review
127. Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee - 4/14/25 - 3.5* - My Review
128. Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal - 4/15/25 - 3.5* - My Review
129. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade - 4/16/25 - 4* - My Review
130. Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey - 4/16/25 - 3* - My Review
131. The Bone People by Keri Hulme - 4/17/25 - 4* - My Review
132. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien - 4/18/25 - 5* - My Review
133. When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe - 4/19/25 - 3.5* - My Review
134. The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali - 4/20/25 - 4* - My Review
135. His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick MacRae by Graeme Macrae Burnet - 4/21/25 - 4* - My Review
136. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 4/22/25 - 4* - My Review
137. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones - 4/23/25 - 3* - My Review
138. Exile Music: A Novel by Jennifer Steil - 4/24/25 - 4* - My Review
139. The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak - 4/25/25 - 4* - My Review
140. Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce - 4/26/25 - 3* - My Review
141. The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr - 4/26/25 - 4.5* - My Review
142. Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum - 4/27/25 - 4* - My Review
143. The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting - 4/28/25 - 4.5* - My Review
144. Audition by Katie Kitamura - 4/29/25 - 5* - My Review
145. The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler - 4/30/25 - 3* - My Review
146. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know by Dov Waxman - 4/30/25 - 4* - My Review
147. The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens - 5/1/25 - 3* - My Review
148. My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende - 5/2/25 - 4* - My Review
149. The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands by Aidan Hartley - 5/3/25 - 5* - My Review
150. William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher - 5/4/25 - 4* - My Review

151 - 200:

151. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. Wallance - 5/5/25 - 4* - My Review
152. Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy - 5/6/25 - 3* - My Review
153. Dream State by Eric Puchner - 5/7/25 - 4* - My Review
154. The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay - 5/8/25 - 4.5* - My Review
155. All That Is by James Salter - 5/9/25 - 2* - My Review
156. Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain by Margaret Willson - 5/10/25 - 4* - My Review
157. The Rebel Nun by Marj Charlier - 5/10/25 - 4* - My Review
158. Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi - 5/11/25 - 3* - My Review
159. Troubles by J.G. Farrell - 5/12/25 - 4* - My Review
160. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff - 5/13/25 - 3* - My Review
161. The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris - 5/14/25 - 4* - My Review
162. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason - 5/15/25 - 5* - My Review
163. The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller - 5/16/25 - 3* - My Review
164. Sing to Me by Jesse Browner - 5/17/25 - 4* - My Review
165. The Pretender by Jo Harkin - 5/17/25 - 4* - My Review
166. The Women by Kristin Hannah - 5/18/25 - 4* - My Review
167. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy - 5/19/25 - 3* - My Review
168. Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea - 5/20/25 - 4.5* - My Review
169. The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition by Margaret Ferguson - 5/21/25 - 4* - My Review
170. Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah - 5/22/25 - 4* - My Review
171. The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga - 5/23/25 - 4* - My Review
172. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer - 5/24/25 - 4* - My Review
173. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson - 5/25/25 - 5* - My Review
174. Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama - 5/26/25 - 4* - My Review
175. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis - 5/27/25 - 4* - My Review
176. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson - 5/28/25 - 5* - My Review
177. Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins - 5/29/25 - 4* - My Review
178. Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan - 5/29/25 - 4* - My Review
179. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers - 5/30/25 - 3.5 - My Review
180. The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - 5/31/25 - 4* - My Review
181. The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan - 6/1/25 - 4* - My Review
182. The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule - 6/2/25 - 3* - My Review
183. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch - 6/3/25 - 4* - My Review
184. Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson - 6/4/25 - 4* - My Review
185. Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff - 6/5/25 - 5* - My Review
186. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder - 6/6/25 - 3* - My Review
187. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman - 6/6/25 - 4* - My Review
188. Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America by Douglas R. Egerton - 6/7/25 - 4* - My Review
189. Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan - 6/8/25 - 4* - My Review
190. The Accomplice by Joseph Kanon - 6/8/25 - 3* - My Review
191. Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music by Richard Crawford - 6/9/25 - 5* - My Review
192. Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein - 6/10/25 - 4* - My Review
193. My Friends by Fredrik Backman - 6/11/25 - 4* - My Review
194. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 6/11/25 - 3* - My Review
195. Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will by Scott Miller - 6/12/24 - 4* - My Review
196. Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison - 6/13/25 - 4* - My Review
197. Bruno's Dream: A Novel by Iris Murdoch - 6/14/25 - 4* - My Review
198. Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik - 6/15/25 - 4* - My Review
199. Beyond the Black Stump by Nevil Shute - 6/15/25 - 4* - My Review
200. This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga - 6/16/25 - 3.5* - My Review

201 - 250:

201. The Beach by Alex Garland - 6/17/25 - 4* - My Review
202. The Famished Road by Ben Okri - 6/18/25 - 3.5* - My Review
203. X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries by Michael Scott - 6/19/25 - 4.5* - My Review
204. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers - 6/19/25 - 5* - My Review
205. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 by Ian W. Toll - 6/20/25 - 4* - My Review
206. One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson - 6/21/25 - 4* - My Review
207. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates - 6/22/25 - 4* - My Review
208. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters - 6/22/25 - 4* - My Review
209. Endling by Maria Reva - 6/23/25 - 5* - My Review
210. Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s by Jason Turbow - 6/24/25 - 3* - My Review
211. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs - 6/24/25 - 4* - My Review
212. My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir - 6/25/24 - 4* - My Review
213. The Years by Virginia Woolf - 6/25/25 - 3.5* - My Review
214. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon - 6/26/25 - 4* - My Review
215. Two Old Women, Anniversary Edition : An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis - 6/27/25 - 4* - My Review
216. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter - 6/27/25 - 5* - My Review
217. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree: A Novel by Shokoofeh Azar - 6/28/25 - 3* - My Review
218. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong - 6/29/25 - 4* - My Review
219. The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien - 6/29/25 - 4* - My Review
220. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - 6/30/25 - 5* - My Review
221. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster - 7/1/25 - 3.5* - My Review
222. The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna - 7/2/25 - 4* - My Review
223. The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter - 7/3/25 - 4* - My Review
224. Conquistadors by Michael Wood - 7/3/25 - 4.5* - My Review
225. The Taste of Air by Gail Cleare - 7/4/25 - 3* - My Review
226. Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip - 7/4/25 - 4* - My Review
227. To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape by Charles Spencer - 7/5/25 - 4* - My Review
228. The House on the Lagoon: A Novel by Rosario Ferré - 7/5/25 - 3.5* - My Review
229. Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali - 7/6/25 - 4* - My Review
230. Farthing by Jo Walton - 7/6/25 - 3.5* - My Review
231. Civilizations by Laurent Binet - 7/7/25 - 4* - My Review
232. A Fable by William Faulkner - 7/7/25 - 3* - My Review
233. Flashlight by Susan Choi - 7/8/25 - 4.5* - My Review
234. Red Clocks by Leni Zumas - 7/8/25 - 3* - My Review
235. Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara - 7/9/25 - 4* - My Review
236. Ubik by Philip K. Dick - 7/9/25 - 4* - My Review
237. The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri - 7/10/25 - 5* - My Review
238. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins - 7/11/25 - 3.5* - My Review
239. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman - 7/11/25 - 4* - My Review
240. The Waves Take You Home by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez - 7/12/25 - 3* - My Review
241. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett - 7/12/25 - 4.5* - My Review
242. C by Tom McCarthy - 7/13/25 - 4* - My Review
243. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein - 7/13/25 - 4* - My Review
244. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner - 7/14/25 - 4* - My Review
245. Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan - 7/14/25 - 4* - My Review
246. The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker - 7/15/25 - 4* - My Review
247. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner - 7/15/25 - 4* - My Review
248. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 7/16/25 - 5* - My Review
249. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green - 7/17/25 - 4* - My Review
250. Daughter of Fire by Sofia Robleda - 7/17/25 - 3.5* - My Review

251 - 300:

251. On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle - 7/18/25 - 4* - My Review
252. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell - 7/18/25 - 4* - My Review
253. Starter Villain by John Scalzi - 7/19/25 - 4.5* - My Review
254. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard - 7/19/25 - 4* - My Review
255. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami - 7/20/25 - 3.5* - My Review
256. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas - 7/20/25 - 4* - My Review
257. Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn - 7/21/25 - 4* - My Review
258. Wool by Hugh Howey - 7/21/25 - 4* - My Review
259. The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds - 7/22/25 - 4.5* - My Review
260. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 7/22/25 - 3.5* - My Review
261. The Rule of One by Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders - 7/23/25 - 3* - My Review
262. Dispatches by Michael Herr - 7/23/25 - 4* - My Review
263. The Great Mann by Kyra Davis Lurie - 7/24/25 - 5* - My Review
264. 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai - 7/25/25 - 3.5* - My Review
265. The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler - 7/26/25 - 3.5* - My Review
266. Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga - 7/27/25 - 3* - My Review
267. The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost - 7/28/25 - 4* - My Review
268. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley - 7/29/25 - 4* - My Review
269. The Prestige by Christopher Priest - 7/30/25 - 4* - My Review
270. Ridgeline by Michael Punke - 7/31/25 - 3.5* - My Review
271. The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis by William Geroux - 8/1/25 - 4* - My Review
272. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter - 8/2/25 - 4.5* - My Review
273. Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga - 8/3/25 - 4* - My Review
274. Imaginary Friends by Alison Lurie - 8/3/25 - 4.5* - My Review
275. Helm: A Novel by Sarah Hall - 8/4/25 - 4* - My Review
276. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf - 8/4/25 - 3* - My Review
277. A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart by Nishant Batsha - 8/5/25 - 3* - My Review
278. Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson - 8/6/25 - 4* - My Review
279. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - 8/7/25 - 4* - My Review
280. Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven - 8/8/25 - 3* - My Review
281. Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brian Hicks - 8/9/25 - 4* - My Review
282. Flesh by David Szalay - 8/9/25 - 2* - My Review
283. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans - 8/10/25 - 4* - My Review
284. The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker - 8/11/25 - 4* - My Review
285. The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett - 8/12/25 - 2* - My Review
286. Pastoral by Nevil Shute - 8/13/25 - 4* - My Review
287. Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby - 8/14/25 - 4* - My Review
288. The South by Tash Aw - 8/15/25 - 3* - My Review
289. Version Control by Dexter Palmer - 8/16/25 - 4.5* - My Review
290. The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett - 8/17/25 - 4* - My Review
291. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland - 8/18/25 - 4* - My Review
292. Rosarita by Anita Desai - 8/19/25 - 4* - My Review
293. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje - 8/19/25 - 3* - My Review
294. Where Butterflies Wander by Suzanne Redfearn - 8/20/25 - 4* - My Review
295. The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist by Anthony M. Amore - 8/21/25 - 4* - My Review
296. Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani - 8/22/25 - 4* - My Review
297. The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout - 8/23/25 - 4* - My Review
298. Love Forms by Claire Adam - 8/24/25 - 4* - My Review
299. One Boat by Jonathan Buckley - 8/25/25 - 4* - My Review
300. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West - 8/26/25 - 4* - My Review

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301. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez - 8/26/25 - 3.5* - My Review
302. The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits - 8/27/25 - 2* - My Review
303. Days of Light by Megan Hunter - 8/27/25 - 4* - My Review
304. The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom - 8/28/25 - 4* - My Review
305. My Giants by Russ Hodges - 8/28/25 - 4* - My Review
306. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 8/29/25 - 4* - My Review
307. Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig - 8/30/25 - 3.5* - My Review
308. IQ by Joe Ide - 8/31/25 - 4* - My Review
309. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - 8/31/25 - 4* - My Review
310. The Curse of the Flores Women by Angélica Lopes - 9/1/25 - 3.5* - My Review
311. Dictator by Robert Harris - 9/1/25 - 5* - My Review
312. The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler - 9/2/25 - 4* - My Review
313. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway - 9/3/25 - 3.5* - My Review
314. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett - 9/3/25 - 3.5* - My Review
315. Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future by Neil Shubin - 9/4/25 - 4* - My Review
316. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 9/5/25 - 4* - My Review
317. The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 9/5/25 - 3* - My Review
318. On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor - 9/6/25 - 4* - My Review
319. To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin - 9/6/25 - 4* - My Review
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Wow, Joy! Big goal and big progress. I see quite a few favorable ratings, too, so hopefully that means that you're enjoying your book picks for this year. Happy reading!

Hi Joy! Hope all is well! Looks like you are smashing your goal. Way to go! Hope that there have been a lot of terrific books in your reading journey so far this year! Happy reading!

Thank you, TerryJane and Jenn! It has been a great year so far - lots of wonderful books!

Joy D wrote: "Thank you, TerryJane and Jenn! It has been a great year so far - lots of wonderful books!"

That's always great to hear! Any favorites?

Yes:
Nesting Roisín O’Donnell
Devil Is Fine John Vercher
All the Glimmering Stars Mark T. Sullivan
Galatea 2.2 Richard Powers
Endling Maria Reva
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club Helen Simonson
The Book of Fire Christi Lefteri
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space Adam Higginbotham
The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands Aidan Hartley
The Piano Tuner Daniel Mason
Twist Colum McCann
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Lori Gottlieb
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hampton Sides
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue Buddy Levy
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë
Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien
Watergate: A New History Garrett M. Graff
Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music Richard Crawford
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 Rick Atkinson
Horizon Barry Lopez
Audition Katie Kitamura
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
The Glory of Their Times Lawrence S. Ritter

Joy D wrote: "Yes:
Nesting Roisín O’Donnell
Devil Is Fine John Vercher
All the Glimmering Stars Mark T. Sullivan
Galatea 2.2 Richard Powers
Endling Maria Reva
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club He..."

Great list! I'll have to check out some of them! I've only read The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.