What I Read in January 2025
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Hello! I’m hopping back into your inboxes to share what I read last month! My standout books for the month were Great Circle, Here We Go Again, Core Samples, and The Wager. All three are stories about huge journeys which leave people changed and involve matters of life and death - and no, I don’t think that’s a coincidence for reading in the darkest (longest!) month of the year. At the same time, I’m going on a bit of a personal journey at the moment - I’ve just turned 31, I’ve stepped away from the work I’ve been doing to go back to uni, and there’s definitely some re-evaluation of priorities going on…
(All links are Amazon affiliate links - help me top up my student budget?)
Unmasked: The Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence - Ellie Middleton
The Summer of Broken Rules - K L Walther
Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time - Laura Khoudari
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
Santa Maybe - Mary Jayne Baker
A Week To Be Wicked - Tessa Dare (re-read)
A Princess In Theory - Alyssa Cole
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers - Samuel Burr
Things We Do For Love - Miranda Dickinson
Here We Go Again - Alison Cochrun
The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love - India Holton
Feel-Good Productivity - Ali Abdaal
Dead Lions - Mick Herron
Whisky Business - Elliot Fletcher
Ne’er Duke Well - Alexandra Vasti
The Lending Library - Aliza Fogelson
Core Samples - Anna Farro Henderson
The Wager - David Grann
Eight of these were library ebooks (I love the Libby app with my whole heart), eight were ebooks on my Kindle, and two were in paperback (one from the library, one from my shelf at home). That’s a pretty accurate representation of what most of my reading looks like, these days. Crucially, I ‘only’ bought four books (of which two were pre-orders for later in the year), so I reduced my towering backlog of books I own but haven’t yet read, whether in physical copies or on my Kindle, by four. I had had the Maggie Shipstead on my Kindle since 2022 - I’m so glad I finally got to read it! - and The Lending Library since 2020!