What I’m Reading – June 2025

What I’m Reading Now

In the Woods by Tana French – this is the first in the Dublin Murder Squad series and was recommended to me by someone on Bookstagram. I am just a few chapters in and am warming up to it.

What I Recently Finished

Fiction

• Plymouth Undercover by Pamela Kelley – Court Street Investigations #1
• Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland – Lost for Words #2 (I didn’t realize until I was partway through that it was the second in a series, but I don’t think it detracted from the book and I plan to read the first one now)
• Not Quite by the Book by Julie Hatcher
• How to Stuff Up Christmas by Rosie Blake
• Secrets of a Shoe Addict by Beth Harbison – Shoe Addict #2
• A Shoe Addict’s Christmas by Beth Harbison – Shoe Addict #2.5
• The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
• More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova
• Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone by Phaedra Patrick

Nonfiction

• Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley

Short Stories

• The Bookstore Family by Alice Hoffman – Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories #4
• Death Row by Frieda McFadden

What I Added to my TBR

Fiction

• The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland
• The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland – Lost for Words #1
• Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
• Anne of Avenue A by Audrey Bellezza
• On Fire Island by Jane L. Rosen – The Fire Island Trilogy #1
• Modern Persuasion by Sara Marks – 21st Century Austen #1
• Take a Moment by Nina Kaye
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle – Time Quintet #1
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Homemaker by Ruthie Knox – Prairie Nightingale #1
• Loveless by Alice Oseman
• Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts
• Woodworking by Emily St. James

TBR Stats/Goal Updates

• I currently have 161 books on my TBR. Of those, 16 are nonfiction and 145 are fiction.
• I finished 4 more of my 25 in 2025 list, bringing that total to 22.
• I have read 58 books so far this year (my goal is 75).
• I have adjusted my nonfiction goal to 1 per month, and I have maintained that pace thus far.

If you’re on Goodreads, feel free to add me as a friend. I’m always looking for new recommendations!

I have also joined The StoryGraph to see what it is like. My handle there is bookwormtrish if you would like to be friends. I am still getting used to it, and my favorite thing so far is the detailed stats. Here is my May Wrap-Up from the site: