July 2025 TBR

Well, June vanished much faster than I expected and hello, July. In a quest to make a shorter TBR, I failed. Hence, the list below, but July is a longer month and there is talk of a brief break later in the month too.

 

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

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation – Ken Liu

 

Themed Reads

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

Of Thorn & Briar: A Year With The West Country Hedgelayer – Paul Lamb

Words From The Hedge: A Hedgelayer’s View Of The Countryside – Negus, Richard

Hedgelands: A Wild Wander Around Britain’s Greatest Habitat – Christopher Hart

 

#20BooksOfSummer

The Warehouse – Rob Hart

Evolution – Stephen Baxter

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation – Ken Liu

Evolution – Stephen Baxter

The Wall – John Lanchester

Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson

The Cruel Stars – John Birmingham

The Solar War – A.G. Riddle

Cage of Souls – Adrian Tchaikovsky

 

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

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

 

Books I’m Clearing

Dilbert 2.0 – Scott Adams

Letters to Camondo – Edmund de Waal

Russians Among Us – Gordon Corera

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

 

Library

Borderland: A Journey Through The History Of Ukraine – Anna Reid

How to Lose a Country: The Seven Warning Signs of Rising Populism – Ece Temelkuran

Ten Birds That Changed The World – Stephen Moss

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

 

Poetry

After Beethoven – Alison Brackenbury

 

Bookclub

The Last Resort – Heidi Perks

 

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

    Well I have two of your hedge books, rather oddly! I did find June went quickly but I managed my 6 assigned 20 Books of Summer including the biggest one of the 20 …

    • Paul

      I have seen your name in the back of the Unbound book

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