October 2025 TBR

Another month rolls by, and another almost the same totally unrealistic TBR appears that is very similar to last month! No idea how many of these I’ll get through, but I hope at least 15!

 

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

The Spymasters: How The CIA’s Directors Shape History And The Future – Chris Whipple

 

Themed Reads

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water – The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century – Fred Pearce

The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future – David Wallace-Wells

Letters to the Earth: Writing Inspired by Climate Emergency – Various

 

Plus If I can get to these:

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

Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI – James Muldoon, Mark Graham & Callum Cant

 

#20BooksOfSummer (I know it isn’t summer anymore…)

The Cruel Stars – John Birmingham

The Solar War – A.G. Riddle

Cage of Souls – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Jade City – Fonda Lee

The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell

 

World From My Armchair

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

Phantoms of Kernow – Joan Passey (Ed)

Return of the Ancients: Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird – Katy Soar  (Ed)

 

Books I’m clearing

Weather – Storm Dunlop

Dilbert 2.0 – Scott Adams

Russians Among Us – Gordon Corera

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

 

Library Books

Stone Lands: A Journey Of Darkness And Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places – Fiona Robertson

The Ponies At The Edge Of The World: A Story of Hope and Belonging in Shetland – Catherine Munro

Nature Needs You: The Fight To Save Our Swifts – Hannah Bourne- Taylor

Sea Bean: A Beachcombers Search for Magical Charm – Sally Huband

 

Poetry

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud – Ana Sampson (Ed)

 

Book Club

Never Had a Dad – Georgie Cudd

 

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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1 Comment

  1. artyreader

    Constable: Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings by Leslie Parrish ( I screenshot for later reference if this is incorrect ).
    PS Wild Galloway has been saved from previous post.
    Thank you.

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