April 2025 TBR

In the quest to make my monthly TBR shorter, it is still as long this month… So here they all are. I hope to read at least twelve of them

Daily Reading

A Tree A Day – Amy-Jane Beer

An Insect a Day: Bees, Bugs, And Pollinators For Every Day Of The Year – Dominic Couzens & Gail Ashton

Still Reading

Handbook of Mammals of Madagascar Hardcover – Nick Garbutt

Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation – Edward Glaeser, David Cutler

Three-Quarters Of A Footprint: Travels in South India – Joe Roberts

Themed Reads

Art this month

Shape Of Light: 100 Years Of Photography And Abstract Art – Simon Baker & Emmanuelle de L’Ecotais

Banksy: The Man Behind The Wall – Will Elsworth Jones

Constable: Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings – Leslie Parris (I need to find this!!)

Banksy: Wall & Piece – Banksy

Plus the Venice books I didn’t get to last month (and we’re visiting in AprilI

Venice – James Morris

Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers – Marie-Jose Gransard

A Thousand Days in Venice : An Unexpected Romance – Marlena de Blasi

Slow Trains To Venice – Tom Chesshyre

Standford

Wild Twin – Jeff Young

The Place of Tides – James Rebanks

On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar – Clare Hammond

WFMAC

The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country – Helen Russell

Along the River that Flows Uphill: From the Orinoco to the Amazon – Richard Starks

Review Books

21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari

Your Journey Your Way: The Recovery Guide to Mental Health – Horatio Clare

Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love – Joanne Ella Parsons

Seascapes: Notes From A Changing Coastline – Matthew Yeomans

The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East – Barnaby Rogerson

The English Path – Kim Taplin

Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway, a Portrait of a Glen – Ian Carter

Books I’m clearing

Dilbert 2.0 – Scott Adams

Armada – Ernest Cline

Madagascar – Gian Paolo Barbieri (Photographer), Carola Lodari

Library

Samarkand: Recipes & Stories From Central Asia & the Caucasus – Caroline Eden & Eleanor Ford

The North Pole: The History Of An Obsession – Erling Kagge

Weathering – Ruth Allen

Stone Will Answer: A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology – Beatrice Searle

In Search Of Lost Frogs – Robin Moore

Poetry

Collected Poems – Wendy Cope

Bookclub

The Last Resort – Heidi Perks

The Gentlewoman Spy – Adele Jordan