Book List 2025
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summeryewberryBook List 2025
It's been a while since I did one of these, so here's my most recent book list!
Ratings:
5/5 - Instant favourite, a classic, beyond impressive
4/5 - Great book, thoroughly enjoyed
3/5 - Good or OK enough, don't regret reading but probably won't re-read
2/5 - Has a few things to offer or maybe for fans, but wouldn't recommend otherwise
1/5 - Disappointing, meh, or waste of time
0/5 - Avoid! Avoid! Avoid!
Most books I start expecting 3/5, and then as I read I adjust up or down, so don't think 3/5 is bad, it's just standard.
My list of books read (and finished) in 2025, in alphabetical order:
non-fiction
You Called an Ambulance for What?, by Tim Booth - 3/5
Cult Bride: How I Was Brainwashed – and How I Broke Free, by Liz Cameron - 5/5
Romney: A Reckoning, by McKay Coppins - 3/5
Unlovable, by Darren Hayes - 4/5
God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy, by Andrea Moore-Emmett - 3/5
fiction
Cesare Aldo #3: Ritual of Fire, by D. V. Bishop - 5/5
The Succubus, by Megan Derr - 2/5
After the Siren, Darcy Green - 4/5
The Magic Between, by Stephanie Hoyt - 2/5
Direct Descendant, by Tanya Huff - 4/5
Any Way the Wind Blows, by Rainbow Rowell - 3/5
comics
Fence #6, by C. S. Pacat - 3/5
children's books (because I have little nieces and nephews)
The Witch Hunter Chronicles #1: The Scourge of Jericho, by Stuart Daly - 4/5
Bindi, by Kirli Saunders - 5/5
Analysis:
Total number of books read:
15
Books that feature LGBT primary characters who don't end up dead, mad or evil?
All of the adult fiction! Again. Because this is what I seek out to read.
Books that feature LGBT secondary characters who don't end up dead, mad, or evil?
All of them. :)
Books that could have trigger warnings? (e.g. rape, torture, suicide, self-harm, other abuse or trauma)
Cesare Aldo #3: Ritual of Fire, by D. V. Bishop (includes a past rape off-page as part of the plot)
Books that made me cry?
None this year.
Books that made me laugh?
Direct Descendant, by Tanya Huff, as she always does with her zany ideas.
Books that were thrown against the wall? (Or deserved to be)
None this year!
Also posted over on my tumblr.
It's been a while since I did one of these, so here's my most recent book list!
Ratings:
5/5 - Instant favourite, a classic, beyond impressive
4/5 - Great book, thoroughly enjoyed
3/5 - Good or OK enough, don't regret reading but probably won't re-read
2/5 - Has a few things to offer or maybe for fans, but wouldn't recommend otherwise
1/5 - Disappointing, meh, or waste of time
0/5 - Avoid! Avoid! Avoid!
Most books I start expecting 3/5, and then as I read I adjust up or down, so don't think 3/5 is bad, it's just standard.
My list of books read (and finished) in 2025, in alphabetical order:
non-fiction
You Called an Ambulance for What?, by Tim Booth - 3/5
Cult Bride: How I Was Brainwashed – and How I Broke Free, by Liz Cameron - 5/5
Romney: A Reckoning, by McKay Coppins - 3/5
Unlovable, by Darren Hayes - 4/5
God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy, by Andrea Moore-Emmett - 3/5
fiction
Cesare Aldo #3: Ritual of Fire, by D. V. Bishop - 5/5
The Succubus, by Megan Derr - 2/5
After the Siren, Darcy Green - 4/5
The Magic Between, by Stephanie Hoyt - 2/5
Direct Descendant, by Tanya Huff - 4/5
Any Way the Wind Blows, by Rainbow Rowell - 3/5
comics
Fence #6, by C. S. Pacat - 3/5
children's books (because I have little nieces and nephews)
The Witch Hunter Chronicles #1: The Scourge of Jericho, by Stuart Daly - 4/5
Bindi, by Kirli Saunders - 5/5
Analysis:
Total number of books read:
15
Books that feature LGBT primary characters who don't end up dead, mad or evil?
All of the adult fiction! Again. Because this is what I seek out to read.
Books that feature LGBT secondary characters who don't end up dead, mad, or evil?
All of them. :)
Books that could have trigger warnings? (e.g. rape, torture, suicide, self-harm, other abuse or trauma)
Cesare Aldo #3: Ritual of Fire, by D. V. Bishop (includes a past rape off-page as part of the plot)
Books that made me cry?
None this year.
Books that made me laugh?
Direct Descendant, by Tanya Huff, as she always does with her zany ideas.
Books that were thrown against the wall? (Or deserved to be)
None this year!
Also posted over on my tumblr.
