Books 2025

I’ve read over 50 books this year, the most since I started noting on this site. Retirement from full-time work is beginning to reap benefits. Looking through the whole list I find my scoring system does exactly relate to the ones that stick in my memory most. Here are the 5 stars anyway.

The Book of Goose : Yiyun Li, ★★★★★

Review: Flashlight by Susan Choi : Susan Choi, ★★★★★

Seascraper : Benjamin Wood, ★★★★★

little monsters : Adrienne Brodeur, ★★★★★

There There : Tommy Orange, ★★★★★

Golden Child : Claire Adam, ★★★★★

Bel Canto : Ann Patchett, ★★★★★

Winter : Ali Smith, ★★★★★

The Unwilding : Mariana Kemp, ★★★★★

In Ascension : Martin MacInnes, ★★★★★

The Divorcees : Rowan Beaird, ★★★★★

Lone Wolf : Adam Weymouth, ★★★★★

Highway Thirteen : Fiona Mcfarlane, ★★★★★

The Blazing Heather : Colm Tóibín, ★★★★★

Half of a Yellow Sun : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ★★★★★