reading in 2025

 Just starting a post instead of a list because I literally never blog anything else anymore.  Perhaps I should figure out a new, more modern system...

  1. Summer Island
  2. One True Loves
  3. A Court of Thorns and Roses
  4. Small Things Like These
  5. The English Understand Wool
  6. Eating to Extinction
  7. The Wild Robot Protects
  8. The Rules of Fortune
  9. The Little House on the Prairie
  10.  Commonwealth
  11.  Foster
  12.  The Answer is No: A Short Story
  13. Tell Me Everything
  14. Now Or Never (Thirty-One on the Run)
  15.  What Happened
  16. Every Summer After
  17.  Sew Deadly
  18. Intermezzo
  19. Under the Whispering Door
  20. Meet Me at the Lake
  21.  A Girl Called Samson
  22.  Here One Moment
  23. Old Yeller 
  24. The Life We Bury
  25. One Golden Summer 
  26. The God of the Woods
  27. The Galveston Diet 
  28. Verity
  29. Disappointing Affirmations
  30.  Broken Country
  31. The Fall Risk
  32. Death Row
  33. Homemaker
  34.  The Dutch House
  35.  My Friends
  36.  Family Family
  37. Somewhere Beyond the Sea
  38.  Under the Tulip Tree
  39. Abscond 
  40. The Animal Family
  41. Malibu Rising
  42. Rental House
  43. Orbital: A Novel 
  44.  Homeseeking
  45.  A Taste of Blackberries
  46.  The Family Recipe
  47.  Great Big Beautiful Life
  48. Wuthering Heights 
  49. Happy Place
  50.  The Poet X
  51. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 
  52. The Wedding People
  53. Ban This Book 
  54. Funny Story 
  55. The Life of Pi
  56. Connie: A Memoir
  57. Gifted and Distractible
  58. The Bodyguard
  59. Unplugged
  60. The Energy Bus 
  61. Bunnicula
  62.  Beach Read
  63.  

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