August 2025 TBR

A bit late with posting as we have been away to Jersey, and then my daughter has had major foot surgery, so I have been otherwise occupied!

Random list again this month, aiming to read as many of these as I can.

 

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

Handbook of Mammals of Madagascar Hardcover – Nick Garbutt

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

Banksy: The Man Behind The Wall – Will Elsworth Jones

The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis

Constable: Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings – Leslie Parris

Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain – Pen Vogler

 

#20BooksOfSummer

Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson

The Cruel Stars – John Birmingham

The Solar War – A.G. Riddle

Cage of Souls – Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Bridge – Janine Ellen Young

 

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

Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History In South America – Shafik Meghji

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

Neurodivergent, By Nature: Why Biodiversity Needs Neurodiversity – Joe Harkness

The Whispers of Rock – Anjana Khatwa

 

Books I’m clearing

The Peace Of Wild Things – Wendell Berry

Dilbert 2.0 – Scott Adams

The Man Who Planted Trees – Jean Giono, Harry Brockway (Ill) & Aline Giono

Russians Among Us – Gordon Corera

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History – Lea Ypi

 

Library

The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite – Jake Bernstein

Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future – Philip Lymbery

Trees In Winter– Richard Shimell
Our Oaken Bones: Reviving A Family, A Farm And Britain’s Ancient Rainforests– Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us– Paoppy Okotcha
Postal Paths: Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Routes – And The People Who Walked Them– Alan Cleaver

 

Poetry

Meridian – Nancy Gaffield

 

So are there any from that list that you have read, or now seeing them, now want to read? Let me know in the comments below.

 

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2 Comments

  1. Liz Dexter

    I was so glad to see the new one from Joe Harkness – I’d worried about him when he stopped doing his blog, etc. Firmly on my wishlist!

    • Paul

      He is on instagram too!

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