While I plan to read more than 25 books in 2025, I want to make an effort to reduce the number of older books on my TBR. Listed below are 25 backlist books I am planning to read this year. The publication years range from 1998 to 2022, with 20 of them being before 2020. I am not participating in any official challenges for this, but I did make a shelf on Goodreads so I can keep track of my progress.
Fiction:
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- Ordinary Life: Stories by Elizabeth Berg
- What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg
- Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy
- Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
- How to Get a (Love) Life by Rosie Blake
- How to Stuff Up Christmas by Rosie Blake
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The London Flat: Second Chances by Juliet Gauvin
- Hope in a Jar by Beth Harbison
- Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison
- The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
- Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman
- Crime Scene by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman
- The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
- Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone by Phaedra Patrick
- Lawyers and Lattes: Happily Ever After in Devon by Rebecca Paulinyi
- Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
Nonfiction:
- The Great Sex Rescue by Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and Joanna Sawatsky
- Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley
- Baby Dinosaurs on the Art by Janet Kellogg Ray
- The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
- How to Fight Racism by Jemar Tisby
- God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines
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