My #20BooksOfSummer2025 roundup
My list – complete with my thoughts
1. The Others by Sheena Kalayil
2. We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
3. Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson
4. Murder Tide by Stella Blómkvist
5. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
6. The History of England by Jane Austen
7. Catherine or The Bower by Jane Austen
10. Blood Axe by Menno Meyjes
11. The Marlow Murders by Biba Pearce
12. Book club read – Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M. B. Vincent
13. Book club read: Now You See Me by Chris McGeorge
15. Unnatural Death by Patricia Cornwell
17. The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf by Frances Spalding (Selected and introduced by)
18. The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen
19. Lovers of Franz K. a novel by Burhan Sönmez (Translated from the Kurdish by Sami Hêzil
21. Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell
My list – my thoughts still to come
20. A Suitable Love Object by Rebecca Swift – read, my thoughts to follow
16. Unruly by David Mitchell – read, my thoughts to follow
Whilst my ability to do more reading than anticipated was pleasing I rather fell short on the sharing of my thoughts. However, I will rectify this over the coming weeks and I will link to this post and my original list post so should you wish to you can check either to catch up.
What I didn’t get to
8. Austen’s Couples by Jane Austen – I’ll add this to #NovNov
9. Lesley Castle by Jane Austen – I’ll add this to #NovNov
14. Listen for the Lie by Amy Tinara – I’ll catch up with this another time.
Final comment – My Original List post
I expected to read 10 books but actually read 18 sadly time just ran out for the final two. As always I changed the order and swopped in a second Patricia Cornwall Identity Unknown as I was on a bit of a roll with the series.
I was pleasantly surprised by how my reading went this summer but a little disappointed by my tardiness in posting about the books I read. Life can’t always, perhaps ever, be perfect as life itself simply gets in the way and things happen unexpectedly – good and bad – and we must just be grateful that we are able to roll with the punches and enjoy life as much as possible.
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7 responses to “#20BooksOfSummer2025 – roundup”
well done!I also have problems keeping up with reviews.Here is my recap: https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/09/03/20booksofsummer2025-final-recap/
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Thank you – I know, sharing thoughts just takes time.
Wow! That’s amazing all those stats! Very interesting and impressive. Not only congrats on your summer reading and round up post but also I see you’re coming up to your 15th blogging anniversary so congratulations on that milestone too.
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Well done and glad you had an enjoyably bookish summer!
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Thank you, Karen, it really was an enjoyable bookish summer. Being able to become absorbed in a book has been an especially important and soothing aspect of my reading but I do need to get on with the blogging side as well, it will all happen in its own good time!
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Well done! Sounds like you had a great summer of reading. I haven’t done this challenge for the last couple of years, but it was always the reviewing that I fell down on too – the reading is the easy bit! 😉
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Thanks FictionFan, I surprised myself with the amount of reading I did! Yes, it’s always the reading that gets done and the blogging just has to come at its own pace 😄
I wasn’t sure whether I would continue with the challenge when Cathy stopped hosting but then I would be reading anyway. Sharing my thoughts on the books often weeks later makes me wonder if I should give the challenge up and be content with reading and sharing at my own pace. I may go challenge free next year and see how it goes.
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Must admit I prefer not to have deadlines for reviewing – it can make it seem like work!
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