A brand new year – so exciting! It’s fun to look back on the year that we have just finished as well as to look forward to the next twelve months.
What I’m Reading Now
I currently have three books out from the library, so I am listing them all under this section. Hopefully I will finish them all before the due dates!
- The Taste of Ginger by Mansi Shah
- Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society by Darien Gee
What I Recently Finished
Fiction:
- The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
- The Little Italian Hotel by Phaedra Patrick
- Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
- The Book Swap by Tessa Bickers
- The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg
- The Healer’s Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson
- Return to Bella Beach by Kate Wentworth
- Miss Amelia’s List by Mercedes Lackey
Nonfiction:
- Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans
- UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality by Colby Martin
Short Stories:
- When We Were Friends by Jane Green
- The Answer Is No by Fredrick Backman
- Cruel Winter with You by Ali Hazelwood
- Merry After Ever by Tessa Bailey
- All by My Elf by Olivia Dade
- Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur
- Only Santas in the Building by Alexis Daria
What I Added to my TBR
- Happy After All by Maisey Yates
- The Autumn of Ruth Winters by Marshall Fine
- One Big Happy Family by Susan Mallery
- Wedding at Bella Beach by Kate Wentworth
- My Friends by Fredrik Backman
- Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
- We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
- Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry by Beth Allison Barr
- Queer & Christian: Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and Our Place at the Table by Brandan Robertson
- The Year of What If by Phaedra Patrick
- The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance by Jemar Tisby
- What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange
- Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir by Alba Donati
- Never Meant to Stay by Trisha Das
- Christmas at the Little Paris Hotel by Rebecca Raisin
- A Bookshop Christmas by Rachel Burton
- The Second Chance Year by Melissa Wiesner
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
- The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
- How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
- Plymouth Undercover by Pamela M. Kelley
TBR Stats
- I currently have 120 books on my TBR
- Of those, 20 are nonfiction and 100 are fiction
- All of the books were added in 2024
One of my goals for 2025 is to read 2 nonfiction books each month. I usually set an overall goal on the Goodreads Reading Challenge as well. Last year, I put down 52 and I ended up finishing 99 books. This year, I may be a bit more ambitious and put down 75.
If you’re on Goodreads, feel free to add me as a friend. I’m always looking for new recommendations!
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