My final TBR of 2025 was supposed to be a short one as I only have 7 books to go on the Good Reads Challenge. But I think that I am going to go over… So here is the not quite so short list for books to read this month:
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
Cage of Souls – Adrian Tchaikovsky
#20BooksOfSummer (Ha!)
The Cruel Stars – John Birmingham
Sunfall – Jim Al-Khalili
Revenger – Alastair Reynolds
Shadow Captain – Alastair Reynolds
The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell
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
Slow Trains Around Britain: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides – Tom Chesshyre
Return of the Ancients: Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird – Katy Soar (Ed)
Little Ruins – Manni Coe
We Are All Adrift – David Banning & Iain Sharpe
Books I’m Clearing
A Butterfly Journey: Maria Sibylla Merian Artist and Scientist – Boris Friedewald & Stephan von Pohl (Tr)
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain – Pen Vogler
Russians Among Us – Gordon Corera
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History – Lea Ypi
The Owl Service – Alan Garner
Library
Nature Needs You: The Fight To Save Our Swifts – Hannah Bourne- Taylor
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future – David Wallace-Wells
Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces – Laurie Winkless
The Future Of Agriculture – Sarah Bearchell
The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness And The Space In Between – Richard Mabey
Poetry
Poetry on the Buses – Valerie Belsey & Candy Neubert (Ed)
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.
The Owl Service scared me silly when I was young (think there was a BBC series too).
I shall bear that in mind when I read it!
I am also still terrified of the Owl Service and, indeed, patterns on china in charity shops, Matthew too, as we both read it at an impressionable age.
I will join your hollow laugh at your 20 Books of Summer with my confession that I still haven’t finished my 2024 TBR project which I was supposed to finish last December.
And I have the Chesshyre book for review, too (I’ve offered a review to Shiny New Books). In fact I have three of his books now, though not yet the Spain one. I was contacted by Summerscale about a different book I already knew I didn’t want, and got into a nice conversation with them which resulted in some review books!
Someone else commented that The Owl Service is quite that book. I am sure that ‘patterns on china’ will become evident!
Readers ambitions are instantly spoiled by all the new books coming out.
Glad you have some of Tom’s books to read now, I hope that you enjoy them