Books read in 2025!
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glacier_kittyHere are the 82 (yay!) books I read this year, totaling 27,597 pages read!
January
A book that is considered healing fiction: We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida (Dec 31-Jan 2) (4/5)
A book that features an unlikely friendship: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Jan 3-6) (5/5)
A book of interconnected short stories: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Jan 6-8) (4/5)
A book with two or more books on the cover or "book" in the title: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss (Jan 9-12) (4/5)
A book that reminds you of your childhood: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Jan 9-12) (4/5)
A book with a snake on the cover or in the title: The Dark Archive by Genevieve Cogman (Jan 14-18) (4/5)
A book with a left-handed character: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Jan 18-21) (4/5)
A book set at a luxury resort: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (Jan 22-26) (4/5)
A book where nature is the antagonist: Katmai by Wilson Fiske Erskine (Jan 26-28) (3/5)
A book under 250 pages: Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen (Jan 28-29) (5/5)
A book written by an author who is neurodivergent: Curtain: Poirot's Last Case by Agatha Christie (Jan 29-31) (4/5)
February
A book set in or around a body of water: Sharpe's Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell (Feb 1-4) (4/5)
A classic you've never read: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Feb 5-10) (2/5)
A book about chosen family: Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes (Feb 10-16) (4/5)
Two books with the same title (1): Stranded by Bracken MacLeod (Feb 17-20) (4/5)
Two books with the same title (2): Stranded by Sarah Goodwin (Feb 21-24) (5/5)
A book with a title that starts with the letter Y: Yellowstone Standoff by Scott Graham (Feb 24-27) (5/5)
March
A book you got for free: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (Feb 28-Mar 3) (4/5)
A book about a cult: The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (Mar 4-17) (5/5)
A book that fills your favorite prompt from the 2015 PS Reading Challenge (a mystery or thriller): The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (Mar 17-21) (4/5)
A book where the main character is an immigrant or refugee: The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman (Mar 21-26) (4/5)
A book about an overlooked woman in history: Ten Days in A Mad-House by Nellie Bly (Mar 27-28) (4/5)
A book about soccer: Love Puppies and Corner Kicks by Bob Krech (Mar 28-29) (4/5)
April
A highly anticipated read of 2025: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Mar 30-Apr 2) (5/5)
A book rated less than three stars on Goodreads: Wild Animus by Rich Shapero (Apr 3-7) (2/5)
A book with silver on the cover or in the title: Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes (Apr 7-14) (5/5)
A book containing magical creatures that aren't dragons: Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes (Apr 15-21) (5/5)
A book where an adult character changes careers: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum (Apr 22-25) (3/5)
A book that fills a 2024 prompt you'd like to do over (or try out): A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours: Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman (Apr 25-28) (4/5)
A book about a food truck: The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki (Apr 29-30) (4/5)
May
A book about a road trip: Five Survive by Holly Jackson (Apr 30-May 5) (3/5)
A book where the main character is a politician: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (May 5-9) (2/5)
A book about space tourism: Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis (May 9-13) (4/5)
A book centering LGBTQ+ characters that isn't about coming out: Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs (May 14-19) (5/5)
A book featuring an activity on your bucket list: Iceland Summer: Travels along the Ring Road by Kurt Caswell (May 19-21) (3/5)
A book about a nontraditional education: Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes (May 22-27) (4/5)
A book that features a character going through menopause: Sandwich by Catherine Newman (May 28-29) (3/5)
A book you want to read based on the last sentence: The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda (May 30-31) (2/5)
June
A dystopian book with a happy ending: The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton (May 31-Jun 3) (4/5)
A book that an AI chatbot recommends based on your favorite book: The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon (Jun 4-9) (4/5)
A book about a run club: The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker (Jun 9-15) (4/5)
A book that includes a nonverbal character: The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf (Jun 15-19) (4/5)
A book that features a married couple who don't live together: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Jun 20-24) (4/5)
A book about a POC experiencing joy and not trauma: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (Jun 25-26) (4/5)
A book where music plays an integral part of the storyline: Lucky Stars by Lucy Frank (Jun 27-29) (4/5)
July
A book that features a character with chronic pain: The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin (Jun 30-July 4) (2/5)
A book mentioned in another book: The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley (July 4-18) (3/5)
A book with a happily single woman protagonist: Weyward by Emilia Hart (July 19-22) (5/5)
A book by the oldest author in your TBR pile: Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions: The Narrative of a Polar Explorer by John Franklin (July 23-29) (2/5)
August
A book you have always avoided reading: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Jul 30-Aug 10) (3/5)
Hans the Eskimo: His Story of Arctic Adventure with Kane, Hayes, and Hall by Edwin Gile Rich (Aug 11-12) (4/5)
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman (Aug 13-18) (5/5)
Blood Lure by Nevada Barr (Aug 19-25) (4/5)
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Aug 27-28) (5/5)
The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown (Aug 28-30) (4/5)
September
The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown (Aug 31-Sept 1) (4/5)
Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II by Mala Kacenberg (Sept 2-5) (3/5)
Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind by Katherine MacInnes (Sept 5-12) (4/5)
The Escape Room by Megan Goldin (Sept 12-16) (4/5)
My Patients Like Treats: Tales from a House-Call Veterinarian by Duncan MacVean (Sept 16-18) (4/5)
The Institution by Helen Sarah Fields (Sept 18-23) (4/5)
White-Out by James Vance Marshall (Sept 24-28) (4/5)
October
The Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic by Loretta Outwater Cox (Sept 29-Oct 1) (4/5)
The Butcher Bird by S.D. Sykes (Oct 2-8) (4/5)
City of Masks by S.D. Sykes (Oct 8-14) (4/5)
The Bone Fire by S.D. Sykes (Oct 15-21) (5/5)
The Good Death by S.D. Sykes (Oct 22-27) (4/5)
The White Voyage by John Christopher (Oct 27-30) (4/5)
November
The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (Oct 31-Nov 3) (4/5)
Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson (Nov 4-8) (3/5)
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin (Nov 9-12) (4/5)
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman (Nov 14-19) (3/5)
SOS North Pacific by Gordon R. Newell (Nov 20-24) (4/5)
66 Days Adrift: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Open Sea by William A. Butler (Nov 25-30) (3/5)
December
The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict (Dec 1-6) (4/5)
The Secret World of Weather by Tristan Gooley (Dec 7-12) (4/5)
Ledge by Stacey McEwan (Dec 13-16) (4/5)
Cat in the Christmas Tree edited by Callie Smith Grant (Dec 17-18) (4/5)
Bob Cratchit's Christmas Carol by Leonard Szymczak (Dec 19) (4/5)
With a Vengeance by Riley Sager (Dec 19-23) (5/5)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie (Dec 24-27) (3/5)
The Hidden City by Charles Finch (Dec 27-30) (3/5)
The university usually does fireworks on New Year's Eve, but they're postponing it because of the super cold weather and ice fog..good idea lol. As I thought yesterday, Juella texted me and said the bookstore will be closed until Tuesday..also a good idea, though I'm becoming lazy LOL. On Sunday it could get to SIXTY below in low spots east of Fairbanks!! D: That's insane! Fairbanks has one of the biggest temperature inversions on earth. We're in a valley surrounded by hills, where the low air sinks and the warmer air rises up to the hills (you can see where the inversion starts by the plume of smoke from the power plant..it gets flat and stretches across the sky) and there isn't any wind to blow it away..I remember when I lived in the hills the temperature could be 20 degrees warmer than in town! Crazy. Next week it's going to be around -15..heat wave!! Haha
See ya next year :P
31. What are you most looking forward to next year? Reading more good books haha, and I'd really like to take time off and travel somewhere..I haven't gone out of state since May, I think..it's hard when Bill and I are the only ones working the register..hopefully the new manager will help with that..
January
A book that is considered healing fiction: We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida (Dec 31-Jan 2) (4/5)
A book that features an unlikely friendship: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Jan 3-6) (5/5)
A book of interconnected short stories: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Jan 6-8) (4/5)
A book with two or more books on the cover or "book" in the title: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss (Jan 9-12) (4/5)
A book that reminds you of your childhood: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Jan 9-12) (4/5)
A book with a snake on the cover or in the title: The Dark Archive by Genevieve Cogman (Jan 14-18) (4/5)
A book with a left-handed character: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Jan 18-21) (4/5)
A book set at a luxury resort: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (Jan 22-26) (4/5)
A book where nature is the antagonist: Katmai by Wilson Fiske Erskine (Jan 26-28) (3/5)
A book under 250 pages: Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen (Jan 28-29) (5/5)
A book written by an author who is neurodivergent: Curtain: Poirot's Last Case by Agatha Christie (Jan 29-31) (4/5)
February
A book set in or around a body of water: Sharpe's Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell (Feb 1-4) (4/5)
A classic you've never read: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Feb 5-10) (2/5)
A book about chosen family: Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes (Feb 10-16) (4/5)
Two books with the same title (1): Stranded by Bracken MacLeod (Feb 17-20) (4/5)
Two books with the same title (2): Stranded by Sarah Goodwin (Feb 21-24) (5/5)
A book with a title that starts with the letter Y: Yellowstone Standoff by Scott Graham (Feb 24-27) (5/5)
March
A book you got for free: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (Feb 28-Mar 3) (4/5)
A book about a cult: The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (Mar 4-17) (5/5)
A book that fills your favorite prompt from the 2015 PS Reading Challenge (a mystery or thriller): The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (Mar 17-21) (4/5)
A book where the main character is an immigrant or refugee: The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman (Mar 21-26) (4/5)
A book about an overlooked woman in history: Ten Days in A Mad-House by Nellie Bly (Mar 27-28) (4/5)
A book about soccer: Love Puppies and Corner Kicks by Bob Krech (Mar 28-29) (4/5)
April
A highly anticipated read of 2025: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Mar 30-Apr 2) (5/5)
A book rated less than three stars on Goodreads: Wild Animus by Rich Shapero (Apr 3-7) (2/5)
A book with silver on the cover or in the title: Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes (Apr 7-14) (5/5)
A book containing magical creatures that aren't dragons: Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes (Apr 15-21) (5/5)
A book where an adult character changes careers: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum (Apr 22-25) (3/5)
A book that fills a 2024 prompt you'd like to do over (or try out): A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours: Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman (Apr 25-28) (4/5)
A book about a food truck: The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki (Apr 29-30) (4/5)
May
A book about a road trip: Five Survive by Holly Jackson (Apr 30-May 5) (3/5)
A book where the main character is a politician: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (May 5-9) (2/5)
A book about space tourism: Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis (May 9-13) (4/5)
A book centering LGBTQ+ characters that isn't about coming out: Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs (May 14-19) (5/5)
A book featuring an activity on your bucket list: Iceland Summer: Travels along the Ring Road by Kurt Caswell (May 19-21) (3/5)
A book about a nontraditional education: Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes (May 22-27) (4/5)
A book that features a character going through menopause: Sandwich by Catherine Newman (May 28-29) (3/5)
A book you want to read based on the last sentence: The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda (May 30-31) (2/5)
June
A dystopian book with a happy ending: The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton (May 31-Jun 3) (4/5)
A book that an AI chatbot recommends based on your favorite book: The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon (Jun 4-9) (4/5)
A book about a run club: The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker (Jun 9-15) (4/5)
A book that includes a nonverbal character: The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf (Jun 15-19) (4/5)
A book that features a married couple who don't live together: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Jun 20-24) (4/5)
A book about a POC experiencing joy and not trauma: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (Jun 25-26) (4/5)
A book where music plays an integral part of the storyline: Lucky Stars by Lucy Frank (Jun 27-29) (4/5)
July
A book that features a character with chronic pain: The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin (Jun 30-July 4) (2/5)
A book mentioned in another book: The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley (July 4-18) (3/5)
A book with a happily single woman protagonist: Weyward by Emilia Hart (July 19-22) (5/5)
A book by the oldest author in your TBR pile: Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions: The Narrative of a Polar Explorer by John Franklin (July 23-29) (2/5)
August
A book you have always avoided reading: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Jul 30-Aug 10) (3/5)
Hans the Eskimo: His Story of Arctic Adventure with Kane, Hayes, and Hall by Edwin Gile Rich (Aug 11-12) (4/5)
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman (Aug 13-18) (5/5)
Blood Lure by Nevada Barr (Aug 19-25) (4/5)
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Aug 27-28) (5/5)
The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown (Aug 28-30) (4/5)
September
The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown (Aug 31-Sept 1) (4/5)
Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II by Mala Kacenberg (Sept 2-5) (3/5)
Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind by Katherine MacInnes (Sept 5-12) (4/5)
The Escape Room by Megan Goldin (Sept 12-16) (4/5)
My Patients Like Treats: Tales from a House-Call Veterinarian by Duncan MacVean (Sept 16-18) (4/5)
The Institution by Helen Sarah Fields (Sept 18-23) (4/5)
White-Out by James Vance Marshall (Sept 24-28) (4/5)
October
The Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic by Loretta Outwater Cox (Sept 29-Oct 1) (4/5)
The Butcher Bird by S.D. Sykes (Oct 2-8) (4/5)
City of Masks by S.D. Sykes (Oct 8-14) (4/5)
The Bone Fire by S.D. Sykes (Oct 15-21) (5/5)
The Good Death by S.D. Sykes (Oct 22-27) (4/5)
The White Voyage by John Christopher (Oct 27-30) (4/5)
November
The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (Oct 31-Nov 3) (4/5)
Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson (Nov 4-8) (3/5)
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin (Nov 9-12) (4/5)
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman (Nov 14-19) (3/5)
SOS North Pacific by Gordon R. Newell (Nov 20-24) (4/5)
66 Days Adrift: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Open Sea by William A. Butler (Nov 25-30) (3/5)
December
The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict (Dec 1-6) (4/5)
The Secret World of Weather by Tristan Gooley (Dec 7-12) (4/5)
Ledge by Stacey McEwan (Dec 13-16) (4/5)
Cat in the Christmas Tree edited by Callie Smith Grant (Dec 17-18) (4/5)
Bob Cratchit's Christmas Carol by Leonard Szymczak (Dec 19) (4/5)
With a Vengeance by Riley Sager (Dec 19-23) (5/5)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie (Dec 24-27) (3/5)
The Hidden City by Charles Finch (Dec 27-30) (3/5)
The university usually does fireworks on New Year's Eve, but they're postponing it because of the super cold weather and ice fog..good idea lol. As I thought yesterday, Juella texted me and said the bookstore will be closed until Tuesday..also a good idea, though I'm becoming lazy LOL. On Sunday it could get to SIXTY below in low spots east of Fairbanks!! D: That's insane! Fairbanks has one of the biggest temperature inversions on earth. We're in a valley surrounded by hills, where the low air sinks and the warmer air rises up to the hills (you can see where the inversion starts by the plume of smoke from the power plant..it gets flat and stretches across the sky) and there isn't any wind to blow it away..I remember when I lived in the hills the temperature could be 20 degrees warmer than in town! Crazy. Next week it's going to be around -15..heat wave!! Haha
See ya next year :P
31. What are you most looking forward to next year? Reading more good books haha, and I'd really like to take time off and travel somewhere..I haven't gone out of state since May, I think..it's hard when Bill and I are the only ones working the register..hopefully the new manager will help with that..
