30 Books Read 2025 

January 

1. The Last Devil to Die - Richard Osman

2. Tales from the Café - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3. Violeta - Isabel Allende 

February

4. Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store - Robin Sloan 

5. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus 

March 

6. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

7. 253 - Geoff Ryman

April 

8. Before Your Memory Fades -  Toshikazu Kawaguchi

9. Klara and The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

May 

10. Bookshops and Bonedust - Travis Baldree 

11. Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie 

12 The Mao Of Bones - Kate Mosse 

June 

13, The Marriage Bureau For Rich People  - Farahad Zawa

14. Recursion - Blake Crouch 

July

15.  The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes - Suzanne Collins 

16. V2 - Robert Harris 

17. Before We Say Goodbye - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

18. A Family Matter - Claire Lynch 

August 

19. Weirdo - Sara Pascoe 

20. Here One Moment - Liane Moriarty 

21. Exposure - Helen Dunmore 

September 

22. Guilty By Definition - Susie Dent 

23. My Sister The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite 

October 

24. Clytemnestra - Costanza Casati

25. Identically Different: Why you can Change Your Genes (NF) Tim Spector 

November

26.  The City And It's Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami 

27. Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?  Damilola Blackburn 

December 

28. The Rose Field - Philip Pullman 

29. Rescue - Anita Shreve 

30. Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Read