May 2025 TBR

Another month has appeared over the time horizon! As Terry Pratchett once said, this ins’t life in the fast lane, this is life in the oncoming traffic! Another totally over the top and ambitious TBR is below. Going on the last couple of months, I’ll read around twelve or thirteen and as some of them will be library books that aren’t on this list then a smaller number of these will get read.

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

Seascapes: Notes From A Changing Coastline – Matthew Yeomans

Themed Reads

I didn’t get to read all the art books from April, hence why they are still here, glaring at me. I did find The Constable book, though!

Banksy: The Man Behind The Wall – Will Elsworth Jones

Constable: Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings – Leslie Parris

Banksy: Wall & Piece – Banksy

Behavioural Economics Saved My Dog: Life Advice For The Imperfect Human – Dan Ariely

The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis

Positive Linking – Paul Ormerod

WFMAC

I was supposed to be reading one of these a month and haven’t, hence why there are three below

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

Cocaine Train: Tracing My Bloodline Through Colombia – Stephen Smith  (Not sure where this is on the bookshelves!!)

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

Welcome To Paradise – Mahi Binebine & Lulu Norman (Tr)

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

Lifelines: Finding a Home in the Mountains of Greece – Julian Hoffman

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

The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities – Zoran Nikolić

Tideways and Byways in Essex and Suffolk –Archie White

Library

The Corn Bride – Mark Stay

The Orchid Outlaw: On A Mission To Save Britain’s Rarest Flowers – Ben Jacob

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

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

Poetry

Raw – Patience Agbabi

Bookclub

A bit behind on the bookclub books so far this year and haven’t made the last two! Will borrow my daughter’s copy of Solomons’ book when she has finished it

The Last Resort – Heidi Perks

The Gentlewoman Spy – Adele Jordan

Fair Rosaline – Natasha Solomons