25 in 2025 Wrap Up

At the beginning of this year, there was a challenge floating around Bookstagram called the #25in2025 challenge. The idea was to identify 25 backlist books from your TBR that you wanted to read this year.

I came up with my list in mid-January, and I am excited to say that I have now read all of the books! (To be totally transparent, I did replace two of the books from the original list when they were hard to track down.)

There were some really good choices in this bunch, and I am so glad I did it. Here is the list of what I read as part of this challenge:

Fiction/Romance

• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Ordinary Life: Stories by Elizabeth Berg
• What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg
• 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
• Secrets of a Shoe Addict by Beth Harbison
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• 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

Thrillers

• Crime Scene by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman
• Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman
• Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman

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 Ark 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

Have you read any of these? Did any of them stand out to you?