Was I correct in thinking that 2025 passed after about 8 months? Or is it that I am getting much older and therefore time speeds up? Answers to the usual address!
I had intended to start off with a shorter monthly TBR, but I haven’t updated my template yet (It is still on the to-do list…) so this month’s is equally long as ever. And here they all are:
Finishing off from 2025
The Cruel Stars – John Birmingham
The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History – Lea Ypi
The Owl Service – Alan Garner
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
Stanfords Shortlist
False Calm – Maria Sonia Cristoff
Review
Warrior: The Biography of a Man with No Name – Edoardo Albert with Paul Gething
The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination – Michaela Vieser And Isaac Yuen
Tea and Grit: A Bicycle Journey along the Silk Road – Helen Watson
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
Hafren: The Wisdom of the River Severn – Sarah Siân Chave
Books I’m Clearing
Russians Among Us – Gordon Corera
Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words – Philip K. Dick & Gregg Rickman
Chris Hoy: The Autobiography – Chris Hoy
On the Road Bike: The Search for a Nation’s Cycling Soul – Ned Boulting
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
Library Books
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future – David Wallace-Wells
Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces – Laurie Winkless
The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers – Bobby Seagull
Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry – Ben Aiken
Poetry
Meridian – Nancy Gaffield
Bookclub
The Ghosts of Merry Hall – Heather Davey
#20BooksOfSummer (Still going…)
Sunfall – Jim Al-Khalili
Revenger – Alastair Reynolds
Shadow Captain – Alastair Reynolds
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.
Presumably you finished your entry-a-day-books (there was one on a tree a day?) – have you started another one? Ali and I are on Feminist History now …
I did. Both good books. I ended up reading them once a week on a Sunday morning as it just worked better
I’m trying to control my TBR mountain (she laughs) so I’m going to wait and see what you think of some of the above before I add them (Manni Coe, Ben Aiken etc).
No pressure then!
I’ve also pinched your idea of an entry-a-day book and have 2 on the go, one for book lovers and one for food lovers.
Happy New Year!
My TBR is an entire mountain range!
I didn’t read them daily, I ended up reading them once a week on a Sunday morning as it just worked better for me
Sunday morning is a good idea – pinching that idea too! We try to do Slow Down Sunday (more time to read and relax) although it often doesn’t seem to work out!