2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I love reading, but sometimes I lose my way - life, work, family, work, more work. Last year when I added up the number of books I read I was appalled to find it was ...... 10.
So this year I have set myself the goal of doubling it.
I absolutely love true crime, Ann Rule being my favourite. If I went to a desert Island the book I would choose would be In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
So, here's hoping me and my kindle become better friends this year :)

Books Read
1. Hanging Hill
2. The Blackhouse
3. The Lewis Man
4. The Chessmen
5. The Girl on the Train
6. Knots and Crosses
7. Copycat
8. The Warning Bell: A Crime Thriller
9. Headhunters
10. The Secret Keeper
11. Silent Scream
12. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
13. Xingu
14. Black Wood
15. I Am Pilgrim
16. Nasty Pasty
17. Q is for Quarry
18. Sing You Home
19. To Kill a Mockingbird
20 Orphan Train
21. Sharp Objects
22. The Sleeping Doll
23. Unraveling Anne
24. Safe House
25. Hostage Zero
26. Catch Your Death
27. Five: A Novel
28. Forever Is Over
29. The Love of My Life
30. kiss my name
31. A Time to Kill
32. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
33. Bone And Cane
34. XO
35. The Last Letter from Your Lover
36. Me Before You
37. Necessary Lies
38. The Christmas Train
39. I Let You Go
40. All My Friends are Superheroes
41. The Christmas List
42. Friar Tuck and the Christmas Devil
43. Something Quite Beautiful: No Greater Love
44. In the Eye of the Beholder: A Short Story
45. And Then She Killed Him
46. The Racketeer
47. Three-and-a-Half Heartbeats
48. Fawn Brown
49. What Have I Done?
50. Christmas in Vermont: A Very White Christmas
51. DECOY
52. The Illegal Gardener

Good luck with your reading goal, Heather! It's easy to get busy with other things and not read much at all, but I hope you're able to work in some more time to read this year. :)

Five: A Novel
Well, for the first time in many a month I have finished a book and want to give it more than 5 stars - absolutely brilliant from start to finish.
Now I know I am a geocacher but even without that I would rate this one of the best, no THE best book I have read this year. The clever writing, the oh so deep plot, the detail, treating the reader like they have a brain cell, the twists, the intriguing characters, the way I was drawn into the plot line.
This morning I woke up at 04:20, could not sleep - my first thought, quick I will read some more of my book, and I did even though it scared the pants off me....
I really hope this author has written more as I am now a true fan. Not sure I'm ever going geocaching in Austria now, but I do know one or two people I could give the 'Ursula' treatment to :)
So do I recommend this - yes I SO do.

Heather wrote: "Five: A Novel
Well, for the first time in many a month I have finished a book and want to give it more than 5 stars - absolutely brilliant from start to finish.
Now I know I am a ge..."

I just added this book to my TBR list based on your review. As one fellow geocacher to another, how could I resist?

Susan wrote: "Heather wrote: "Five: A Novel
Well, for the first time in many a month I have finished a book and want to give it more than 5 stars - absolutely brilliant from start to finish.
Now ..."

Susan wrote: "Heather wrote: "Five: A Novel
Well, for the first time in many a month I have finished a book and want to give it more than 5 stars - absolutely brilliant from start to finish.
Now ..."

I really hope you enjoy it, another geocaching friend of mine has read it and she loved it too :)