What I’m Reading – May 2025

What I’m Reading Now

Fiction – Plymouth Undercover by Pamela M. Kelley – Court Street Investigations #1

Nonfiction – The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow Prior

What I Recently Finished

Fiction

• How to Get a (Love) Life by Rosie Blake
• Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games #0.5
• The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up by Laura Pearson
• Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
• Lethal Prey by John Sandford – Lucas Davenport #35; Virgil Flowers #16
• Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman – Petra Connor #1
• Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman – Petra Connor #2

Nonfiction

• The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended by Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and Joanna Sawatsky

Short Stories

• The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman – The Once Upon a Time Bookshop #1
• The Bookstore Wedding by Alice Hoffman – The Once Upon a Time Bookshop #2
• The Bookstore Keepers by Alice Hoffman – The Once Upon a Time Bookshop #3
• The One That Got Away by Mike Gayle
• The Sublet by Greer Hendricks
• The Fall Risk by Abby Jimenez
• The Tomorrow Box by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Giraffe & Flamingo by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Sebastian and the Troll by Fredrik Backman
• The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin

What I Added to my TBR

Fiction

• How to Find Your (First) Husband by Rosie Blake
• The Gin O’Clock Club by Rosie Blake
• Lessons at the School by the Sea by Jenny Colgan – School by the Sea #3
• Studies at the School by the Sea by Jenny Colgan – School by the Sea #4
• Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages by Jenny Colgan
• The Secret Christmas Library by Jenny Colgan
• Betting on Good by Wendy Francis
• Same Time Next Week by Milly Johnson
• The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
• The Many Futures of Maddy Hart by Laura Pearson
• I Wanted You to Know by Laura Pearson
• Missing Pieces by Laura Pearson
• Nobody’s Wife by Laura Pearson
• The Beforelife of Eliza Valentine by Laura Pearson
• The Woman Who Met Herself by Laura Pearson
• In the Woods by Tana French – Dublin Murder Squad #1
• Storm Peak by John A. Flanagan – Jesse Parker Mystery #1
• Avalanche Pass by John A. Flanagan – Jesse Parker Mystery #2

Nonfiction

• How I Changed My Mind About Evolution: Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science by Kathryn Applegate (Editor) and J.B. Stump (Editor)
• The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins by Peter Enns
• Autism Out Loud: Life with a Child on the Spectrum, from Diagnosis to Young Adulthood by Kate Swenson, Adrian Wood, and Carrie Cariello

Short Stories

• The Bookstore Family by Alice Hoffman – The Once Upon a Bookshop #4

TBR Stats/Goal Updates

• I currently have 160 books on my TBR. Of those, 17 are nonfiction and 143 are fiction.
• I finished 5 more of my 25 in 2025 list, bringing that total to 18.
• I have read 46 books so far this year (my goal is 75).
• One of my goals was to read 2 nonfiction books each month. So far this year I have read 1 per month.

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