100+ Books in 2025 discussion

January 2025
1. Ally Carter--The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year finished 1/2/25
2. Peter Swanson--The Christmas Guest finished 1/3/25
3. Seth Dickinson--Please Undo This Hurt finished 1/3/25
4. Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb--Christmas with the Queen finished 1/5/25
5. T. Kingfisher--The Raven and the Reindeer finished 1/6/25
6. Alison Espach--The Wedding People finished 1/9/25
7. Griffin Dunne--The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir finished 1/12/25
8. Ariel Lawhon--The Frozen River finished 1/15/25
9. Oscar Wilde--Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast finished 1/16/25
10. Kim Jiyun--Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat finished 1/26/25
11. R. William Bennett--Jacob T. Marley finished 1/30/25
12. Lee Child--Eleven Numbers finished 1/31/25
13. Cheryl Strayed--Two Women Walk into a Bar finished 1/31/25
14. Veronica Roth--Void (The Far Reaches, #2) finished 1/31/25

February 2025
15. Veronica G. Henry--The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6) finished 2/1/25
16. Tamsyn Muir--Undercover (Into Shadow, #5) finished 2/2/25
17. Abby Jimenez--The Fall Risk finished 2/2/25
18. Danny Trejo--Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood finished 12/6/25
19. J.D. Robb--Bonded in Death (In Death, #60) finished 2/14/25
20. Edgar Rice Burroughs--The Efficiency Expert finished 2/15/25
21. Marie Benedict--The Queens of Crime finished 2/18/25
22. Robert Crais--The Big Empty (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #20) finished 2/20/25
23. John Scalzi--Agent to the Stars finished 2/27/25
24. Leo Tolstoy--How Much Land Does a Man Need? finished 2/28/25

March 2025
25. Freida McFadden--The Crash finished 3/4/25
26. Greer Hendricks--The Sublet finished 3/5/25
27. Anne Tyler--Three Days in June finished 3/7/25
28. Elle Cosimano--Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave (Finlay Donovan #5) finished 3/10/25
29. Bree Paulsen--Garlic and the Vampire finished 3/11/25
30. Alix E. Harrow--The Knight and the Butcherbird finished 3/12/25
31. Ali Hazelwood--Deep End finished 3/22/25
32. W.R. Gorman--We Kept Her in the Cellar finished 3/24/25
33. Stefan Zweig--Chess Story finished 3/25/25
34. Rainer Maria Rilke (Charlie Louth Translator)--Letters to a Young Poet finished 3/25/25
35. John Scalzi--When the Moon Hits Your Eye finished 3/26/25
36. Charles Portis--True Grit finished 3/28/25
37. Will Lowrey--Where the Irises Bloom finished 3/29/25
38. Umi Sakurai--A Man and His Cat, Vol. 12 finished 3/30/25
39. Emily Brontë--The Night is Darkening Round Me finished 3/31/25

April 2025
40. Laurie Gilmore--The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1) finished 4/2/25
41. Mike Gayle--The One That Got Away: A Short Story finished 4/4/25
42. Abby Jimenez--Say You'll Remember Me finished 4/8/25
43. Gary Paulsen--Harris and Me finished 4/12/25
44. Elizabeth Gaskell--The Old Nurse's Story finished 4/14/25
45. William Faulkner--A Rose for Emily finished 4/14/25
46. Nikolai Gogol--The Nose finished 4/15/25
48. Joseph Conrad--The Secret Sharer finished 4/16/25
49. Fyodor Dostoyevsky-The Meek One (A Gentle Creature) finished 4/16/25
50. George Eliot--Brother Jacob finished 4/17/25
51. Joseph Conrad--Typhoon finished 4/19/25
52. Christina Rosetti-Goblin Market finished 4/22/25
53. Jesse Q. Sutanto--Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man] (Vera Wong #2) finished 4/28/25
54. Emily Henry--Great Big Beautiful Life finished 4/30/25

May 2025
55. Carrie Fisher--Wishful Drinking finished 3/1/25
56. Joe Hill--Jackknife finished 5/2/25
57. Freida McFadden--Death Row (Alibis collection) finished 5/3/25
58. Jason Rekulak--The Last One at the Wedding finished 5/5/25
59. Freida McFadden--The Tenant finished 5/6/25
60. Catherynne M. Valente--Deathless finished 5/7/25
61. Carrie Fisher--Shockaholic finished 5/8/25
62. Grady Hendrix--The Blanks finished 5/8/25
63. Catriona Ward--Night and Day in Misery finished 5/9/25
64. Joe Concha--The Greatest Comeback Ever: Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign finished finished 5/10/25
65. Owen King--Letter Slot finished 5/11/25
66. Stephen Graham Jones--The Indigo Room finished 5/11/25
67. Elizabeth Smart--By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept finished 5/11/25
68. Julie Andrews Edwards--Little Bo finished 5/12/25
69. Colm Tóibín--Long Island (Eilis Lacey #2) finished 5/18/25
70. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie--Notes on Grief finished 5/19/25
71. Craig Johnson--The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1) finished 5/24/25
72. Michael Connelly--Nightshade finished 5/26/25
73. Spencer Quinn--Thereby Hangs a Tail (A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #2)
74. Agatha Christie--Endless Night finished 5/29/25
75. Agatha Christie--Curtain (Hercule Poirot #44) finished 5/30/25

June 2025
76. Agatha Christie--Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11) finished 6/1/25
77. Craig Johnson--Return to Sender: A Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire, #21) finished 6/2/25
78. Edith Wharton--The Reckoning (Penguin Little Black Classics, #48) finished 6/3/25
79. Abraham Verghese--Abscond finished 6/3/25
80. Taylor Jenkins Reid--Atmosphere finished 6/5/25
81. T. Kingfisher--Nettle & Bone finished 6/7/25
82. Carley Fortune--Every Summer After finished 6/15/25
83. Carley Fortune--One Golden Summer finished 6/18/25
84. Tanya Guerrero--Cat's People finished 6/20/25
85. Stephen King--Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4) finished 6/23/25
86. Sid Fleischman--The Whipping Boy finished 6/24/25
87. Alan Armstrong--Whittington finished 6/25/25
88. Lorrie Moore--Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? finished 6/27/25
89. Alice Feeney--Sometimes I Lie finished 6/29/25

July 2025
90. Lois Lenski--Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison finished 7/2/25
91. Rayna M. Gangi--Mary Jemison: White Woman of the Seneca finished 7/3/25
92. Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough--From Here to the Great Unknown finished 7/8/25
93. Rose Tremain--The Toy Car: A Short Story finished 7/9/25
94. Riley Sager--With a Vengeance finished 7/13/25
95. Wally Lamb--The River Is Waiting finished 7/17/25
96. Jason Rekulak--Hidden Pictures finished 7/19/25
97. Martha Wells--Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5) finished 7/18/25
98. Salman Rushdie--Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder finished 7/20/25
99. Kevin Wilson--Run for the Hills finished 7/24/25
100. Nick Spalding--Grave Talk finished 7/26/25
101. Kelly Mustian--The River Knows Your Name finished 7/29/25
102. Kathleen Duey--Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron finished 7/31/25
103. Esther Averill--The Fire Cat finished 7/31/25

August 2025
104. Jon J. Muth--The Three Questions finished 8/1/25 and
Leo Tolstoy-Three Questions finished 8/1/25
105. Ellery Lloyd--Bad Date: A Short Story finished 8/2/25
106. Julie Salamon and Jill Weber--Cat in the City finished 8/4/25
107. Liz Nugent--Strange Sally Diamond finished 8/8/25
108. Freida McFadden--The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) finished 8/10/25
109. Stephen Graham Jones--Wait for Night finished 8/11/25
110. Stephen King--The Life of Chuck finished 8/11/25
111. Ruth Ware--The Woman in Suite 11 (Lo Blacklock, #2) finished 8/16/25
112. Meghan Quinn--Till Summer Do Us Part finished 8/19/25
113. Erin Crosby Eckstine--Junie finished 8/21/25
114. Amanda Peters--The Berry Pickers finished 8/22/25
115. T. Kingfisher--Thornhedge finished 8/23/25
116. Abby Jimenez--The Situationship finished 8/24/25
117. T. Kingfisher--Hemlock & Silver finished 8/26/25
118. John Green--Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection finished 8/29/25
119. Sarah Chauncey and Francis Tremblay--P.S. I Love You More Than Tuna finished 8/29/25
120. Rhys Bowen--Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure finished 8/31/25

September 2015
121. J.D. Robb--Framed in Death (In Death, #61) finished 9/3/25
122. Ivy Pochoda--Eerie Basin: A Short Story finished 9/4/25
123. Kate Seredy--Gypsy finished 9/5/25