Books Read in 2025 - Alphabetical by Author's Name
Adolfsson, Maria: Fatal Isles (mystery)
Atkin, Polly: Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (non-fiction)
Atherton, Nancy: Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure (cozy mystery)
Atherton, Nancy: Aunt Dimity's Death (cozy mystery)
Baker, Jo: Longbourn (fiction)
Baker, Wade and Tasi, Mary: The Hidden Journals: Captain Vancouver and His Mapmaker (history)
Bauermeister, Erica: The Scent Keeper (fiction)
Bennett, S. J. : A Death in Diamonds (mystery)
Berry, Wendell: Watch With Me (short stories)
Bowen, Rhys: We Three Queens (mystery)
Buchan, John: The Thirty-Nine Steps (mystery)
Bull, Jessica: Miss Austen Investigates (fiction)
Burrows, Steve: A Foreboding of Petrels (mystery)
Burrows, Steve: A Shimmer of Hummingbirds (mystery)
Butland, Stephanie: The Lost for Words Bookshop (fiction)
Callanan, Maggie and Kelley, Patricia: Final Gifts (non-fiction)
Carr, J. L.: A Month in the Country (fiction)
Christie, Agatha: The Murder at the Vicarage (mystery)
Christie, Agatha: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (mystery)
Christie, Agatha: Towards Zero (mystery)
Cleeves, Ann: Cold Earth (mystery)
Dray, Stephanie: The Women of Chateau Lafayette (historical fiction)
Edwards, Anne-Marie: Jane Austen's England: A Walking Guide (non-fiction)
Gaynor, Hazel and Webb, Heather: Christmas with the Queen (fiction) not great
George, Nina: The Little Paris Bookshop (fiction)
Gilman, Dorothy: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (mystery)
Goss, Pete: Close to the Wind (real life adventure)
Goudge, Elizabeth: The Bird in the Tree (fiction)
Griffiths, Elly: The Postscript Murders (mystery)
Hadfield, Chris: The Defector (spy mystery) (Canadian)
Harold, Hughina: Totem Poles and Tea (memoir) (Canadian)
Harper, Karen: The Queen's Secret (historical fiction - highly speculative)
Hayes-McCoy, Felicity: The Library at the Edge of the World (fiction)
Henry, Patti Callahan: The Idea of Love (fiction)
Hill, Susan: Howard's End is on the Landing (non-fiction - a year of reading from her personal library)
Hogan, Ruth: The Phoenix Ballroom (fiction)
Hornby, Gill: Jane Austen (non-fiction)
Hoye, Linda: Living Liminal (memoir)
Hunter, Clare: Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (non-fiction)
InScribe Christian Writers: Creativity and Chaos: Artistic Endeavours for Trying Times (Canadian Anthology)
Johnson, Alex: Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write (non-fiction)
Kearsley, Susanna: The King's Messenger (fiction)
Kidd, Sue Monk: The Invention of Wings (fiction)
Lang, Michale: An Adventurous Woman Abroad (Lantern Slides of Mary T. S. Schaffer) (history) (Rocky Mountains, Alberta) (Canadian)
Laurain, Antoine: French Windows (fiction)
Lawhon, Ariel: The Frozen River (fiction) VERY GOOD
Laycock, Marcia Lee: Pondr'ings (memoir) (Canadian)
Laycock, Marcia Lee: One Smooth Stone (fiction - Yukon) (Canadian)
Lindgren, Astrid: Pippi Longstocking (children's fiction) Read to Iris and Cora
Lindgren, Astrid: Pippi Goes on Board (children's fiction) Read to Iris and Cora
Mackesy, Charlie: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (fiction)
McCoy, Sarah: Marilla of Green Gables (fiction)
MacLean, Alistair: Santorini (adventure)
May, Katherine: Wintering (non-fiction)
Miss Read: Christmas at Fairacre (Christmas fiction)
Mitchell, Emma: The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us (non-fiction)
Montefiore, Santa: An Italian Girl in Brooklyn (fiction)
Moorehead, Caroline: Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France (history)
Mortimer, John: Rumpole at Christmas (Christmas fiction)
Nesbit, E.: The Railway Children (children's fiction)
Penny, Louise: Still Life (mystery) (Canadian)
Penny Louise: The Black Wolf (mystery) (Canadian)
Perrin, Valerie: Fresh Water for Flowers (fiction)
Peters, Glynis: The Secret Orphan (WWII fiction)
Pilcher, Robin: Starting Over (fiction)
Pilcher, Rosamunde: September (fiction)
Pilcher, Rosamunde: Winter Solstice (Christmas fiction)
Pooley, Claire: The Authenticity Project (fiction)
Quinn, Kate and Chang, Janie: The Phoenix Crown (fiction)
Renkl, Margaret: The Comfort of Crows (essays on aging and gardens)
Rentzenbrink, Cathy: Dear Reader (memoir)
Rentzenbrink, Cathy: Write it all Down (non-fiction)
Richardson, Kim Michele: The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek (historical fiction)
Richardson, Kim Michele: The Bookwoman's Daughter (fiction)
Ryan, Jennifer: The Chilbury Ladies Choir (WWII fiction)
Ryan, Jennifer: The Underground Library (WWII fiction)
Ryan, Jennifer: The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle (WWII fiction)
Samson, Polly: A Theatre for Dreamers (fiction)
Sayers, Dorothy: Lord Peter Views the Body (mystery stories)
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Barrows, Annie: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shalev, Meir: My Wild Garden: Notes from a Writer's Eden (non-fiction)
Sheriff, R. C.: The Fortnight in September (fiction)
Shreve, Anita: Sea Glass (fiction)
Simonsen, Helen: The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club (WWII fiction)
Slater, Nigel: A Cook's Book (non-ficiton, food writing)
Slater, Nigel: A Cook's Year (non-fiction, food writing)
Stevenson, D. E.: The Four Graces (fiction)
Stewart, Mary: The Stormy Petrel (mystery)
Stewart, Mary: The Wind off the Small Isles (mystery)
Stewart, Mary: Thornyhold (fiction)
Struther, Jan: Mrs. Miniver (fiction)
Taylor, Elizabeth: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (fiction)
Terry, Pamela: The Sweet Taste of Muscadines (fiction)
Thayer, Nancy: Let it Snow (Christmas novel)
Thompson, Flora: Still Glides the Stream (a tale of memories)
Todd, Charles: A Christmas Witness (mystery - novella) disappointing
Todd, Charles: A Pattern of Lies (mystery)
Toibin, Colm: Long Island (fiction)
Tolkien, J. R. R.: Letters from Father Christmas (Christmas fiction)
Trollope, Anthony: Christmas at Thompson Hall (Christmas short stories)
Von Armin, Elizabeth: The Enchanted April (fiction)
Willig, Lauren: The Lure of the Moonflower (fiction)
Winspear, Jacqueline: Maisie Dobbs (mystery)
Wishaw, Iona: A Killer in King's Cover (mystery) (Canadian)
Wishaw, Iona: A Sorrowful Sanctuary (mystery) (Canadian)
Wishaw, Iona: An Old Cold Grave (mystery) (Canadian)
Wishaw, Iona: Death Darkening Mist (mystery) (Canadian)
Wishaw, Iona: It Begins in Betrayal (mystery) (Canadian)
Wishaw, Iona: Lightning Strikes the Silence (mystery) (Canadian)
Wishaw, Iona: To Track a Traitor (mystery) (Canadian)
Woods, Evie: The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris (fiction)
