What I’m Reading – August 2025

What I’m Reading Now

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang – The Kiss Quotient #2 – I somehow read books 1 & 3 of this series but missed book 2! This is a fun romance featuring an autistic main character written by an autistic author.

What I Recently Finished

Fiction

• Yoga Pant Nation by Laurie Gelman – Class Mom #3
• Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
• Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
• After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev – The Rajes #3
• The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland – Lost for Words #1
• How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
• The Nantucket Restaurant by Pamela Kelley
• Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand – Paradise #1
• What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand – Paradise #2
• More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa – Days at the Morisaki Bookshop #2

Nonfiction

• Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry by Beth Allison Barr

What I Added to My TBR

• The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison
• The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun – The Charm Offensive #1
• Tilda Is Visible by Jane Tara
• The Love Haters by Katherine Center
• The Forever House by Veronica Henry
• Right Place, Right Time by Ali McNamara
• The Sandy Page Bookshop by HannahMcKinnon
• Introducing Mrs Collins by Rachel Parris
• Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory – The Wedding Date #1
• The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory – The Wedding Date #2
• The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory – The Wedding Date #3
• Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory – The Wedding Date #4
• Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory – The Wedding Date #5
• While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory – The Wedding Date #6
• The Storytellers by Sue Heath
• Something to Look Forward To: Fictions by Fannie Flagg

TBR Stats/Updates

• I currently have 165 books on my TBR. Of those, 11 are nonfiction and 155 are fiction.
• Since I completed my 25 in 2025 challenge, I created a focused reading list of 25 books I would like to read by the end of the year. So far, I have read 6 of those books.
• I have read 80 books so far this year (my goal was 75).
• I read 1 nonfiction book this month, which is my goal. My total for the year so far is 8.
• Here are some more stats from StoryGraph:

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