Sunday, 31 August 2025

August 2025 Reading List

 August - 5

Total to date: 49 (41 new/9 re-read) 16 *non-fiction - Best Book(s)

- The Distant Echo, Val McDermid

- The Women of Troy. Pat Barker

- *Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman

- *Scoff: a history of food and class in Britain, Pen Vogler

- Sight Unseen, Robert Goddard

Earlier this year:

- *The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer

*Wintering, Katherine May

*Meditations for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman

Death Comes to Pemberley, P. D. James

- *Carrie Fisher - a life on the edge, Sheila Weller

*Less, Patrick Grant

Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins

The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper

- Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Margaret Forster

The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner

- *The Bolter, Frances Osborne

- *The Little Book of HyggeMiek Wiking

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor

*Walden, Henry David Thoreau

Let Me In, Claire McGowen 

- A is for Alibi, Sue Grafton

B is for Burglar, Sue Grafton

- C is for Corpse, Sue Grafton

- D is for Deadbeat, Sue Grafton

- E is for Evidence, Sue Grafton

- F is for Fugitive, Sue Grafton

G is for Gumshoe, Sue Grafton

H is for Homicide, Sue Grafton

I is for Innocent, Sue Grafton

*Jane Austen at Home, Lucy Worsley

- Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles

The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah

Model Misfit, Holly Smale

She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey

- *The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, Margareta Magnusson

- Sisters of Treason, Elizabeth Fremantle

The Warden, Anthony Trollope

Yellowface, Rebecca F. Kuang

Margot and Me, Juno Dawson 

Miss Austen, Gill Hornby

- *MeditationsMarcus Aurelius Silent Witness, R. Austin Freeman

*The Lazy Genius Way, Kendra Adachi

*The Devonshires, Roy Hattersley

Jane and Prudence, Barbara Pym

- *The Zero-Waste Chef, Anne-Marie Bonneau

Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel

J-6 F-5 M-7 A-10 M-5 J-7 J-4 A-5 S- O- N- D

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