Books you plan to read in 2025

[Dappy777]

Has anyone got a list of books they hope to read in 2025? Here is mine:

Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four
Douglas Adams: So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
Henry James: Portrait of a Lady
Ford Madox Ford: Parade's End
George Eliot: Middlemarch
Tolstoy: War and Peace (no chance!!! I'd like to at least make a start though)
Dickens: Bleak House (ditto)
Patrick Leigh Fermor: Mani
Jane Austen: Emma
Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle
Oscar Wilde: Essays (I did read them this year, but want to re-read them)
P. G. Wodehouse: Blandings books (I adore the Jeeves and Wooster books, but have never read any of the Blandings series)
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies

No way will I read all of them. Frankly, I'll be lucky to read half! But those are some of the books I really want to try this year. Would love to see other people's lists. I still haven't read Wolf Hall. And I've never read a word of Iris Murdoch, Martin Amis, John Updike, or Alan Hollinghurst. I also want to read Thomas Halliday's Otherlands and a decent book on astronomy, which I know nothing about. So many books, so little time.😡

I would like to read some more stuff by Frederik Backman after enjoying A Man Called Ove. And then some nice books that grab me but don't stress me too much.

Open to suggestions on that front.

My partner just got me the whole Never After series by Emily McIntire as well as Haunting Adeline, Hunting Adeline, Where's Molly & Satan's Affair by H. D. Carlton.

I have the Sierra Simone Priest trilogy, I've read Priest, just started Sinner and yet to read saint so that's on my list.

I also have three Peter James books, Dead at first sight, Dead simple and Twilight.

I want to read The Sinner and The Ritual by Shantel Tessier as well

I'm planning on starting Great Expectations on Christmas Eve.
I want to read The Last Witch of Scotland during a trip to the Highlands at Easter.
No hard and fast plans to read anything else just yet, but have lots of books on my to read shelf and want to read list.

I want to read some classics that I haven't read yet. I was thinking Great Expectations. I've just got Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 out of the library and probably won't get round to it until 2025! John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men is another one.

Are you kidding? I don't even know what I'll be reading next month.
That's a truly excellent list, though, @Dappy777. It sounds like you'll have an enjoyable, rewarding year.

I'm going to read whatever I haven't read on my Kindle and on my bookshelves for the most part.

From your list @Dappy777 I really like 'Portrait...' and 'Bleak House'. I like 'Middlemarch' and 'War and Peace'. I haven't read 'Emma' for a while but it is good. I watched the film not too long ago.

Good luck with it!

Demon Copperhead
The Luminaries
Les Miserables
The biography of Alexander Hamilton which I have owned for four years
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
Shrines of Gaiety, Life after Life, Normal Rules Don’t Apply - Kate Atkinson
Tell me everything , Elizabeth Strout
The proof of my innocence, Jonathan Coe
We Solve Murders
The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke
Somewhere beyond the sea, TJ Klune
Curtain Call, Anthony Quinn
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley

Some I already own, some I have asked for for Xmas. Not many classics there but I have read a lot of those already, I would like to reread lots of Dickens.

You've inspired me to make a plan for 2025 @Dappy777 with that rather good list of yours. I'm going to start the year with Portrait of a Lady.

Ah, yes, Great Expectations is definitely one of those bucket list books. Personally, I preferred David Copperfield, but I know the critics consider Great Expectations his masterpiece (actually, I think Harold Bloom said Bleak House was his best work).

I must read The Grapes of Wrath. I've never read a word of Steinbeck. I did listen to Slaughterhouse Five on audio, and enjoyed it, but it's not the same as properly reading a book.

I can't bear Steinbeck. Too depressing. I'll never forgive him for the ending of Of Mice and Men.

I'm going to try and read some classics I haven't read too.

Top of the list is Jane Eyre.
I do have a copy and have picked up approx. 3 million times, but never got passed the first page.

I was going to try and read more of the Booker List but we shall see.

I believe the new Strike novel will be out next year, so I'll probably splurge on that.

I've also had Shuggie Bain sitting on my shelf for a few years. I never fancy it though.

For info, I go down BookTok rabbit holes, most of them are shite but weirdly addictive. I must stop that 😂

Rereads
The Mapp & Lucia novels - I've got them on audible but I want to read them
Persuasion - after scoring very poorly on a general JA quiz today I realised I've forgotten its plot
Mansfield Park - as above but not so bad

Attempt a Virginia Woolf
attempt Madame Bovary in French ( a much loved book of mine plus read it in French at school so not as challenging as at first glance)

Read
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Christie)
The House on the Strand (big du Maurier fan but never read this)
The Golden Bowl (Henry James)
EF Benson's Freaks of Mayfair, Dodo & Spook Stories
The Diddakoi (Rumer Godden)

if you can identify the link between those last 3 you get a gold star :)

War and Peace - I tried, I really did but I kept getting confused with all the different names there were for one person. You may want to make a crib sheet. I would definitely consider if I was going to give it another go

I have books that were bought for me last Christmas and birthday which I haven't yet read:
Unruly - David Mitchell
Steeple Chasing - Peter Ross
Heaven on Earth - Emma Wells
Hidden Histories - Mary-Ann Ochota
The Water of the Wonderous Iles - William Morris
Written on the Dark - Guy Gavriel Kay not released until May 2025
And anything else my Libby app has

Some fantastic book suggestions on here!

For me:

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

The new Strike!!!

Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

If there's a new book by Kate Atkinson, I will devour that...although her most recent Jackson Brodie was a bit disappointing.

I've just finished Shy Creatures, it's the second Clare Chambers I've written and I've really enjoyed them both.

My son is getting me All the Colours of the Dark for Christmas and I'm eagerly awaiting the new Strike. It seems we like the same things so I'll have to look for the other 2 books you're reading now 😂

@Hellohah
Ha! You obviously have excellent taste in books too!

Glad to hear you enjoyed the latest Clare Chambers.

I LOVED We Begin at the End so have high hopes for Colours.

I'm unfamiliar with the author of the Ministry of Time, I really enjoy books based around time travel.

The Glassmaker - Tracy Chevalier
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Conclave and Munich - Robert Harris

That will do for starters

This is my list but all new releases

The Broken River by Chris Hammer Jan

Confessions Catherine Airey Jan

The Frozen People Elly Griffiths Feb

Unkind Victoria Smith Feb

fundamentally nussaibah younis Feb

Dream Count Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie March

Marble Hall Murders Anthony Horowitz April

The homemade God Rachel Joyce April

The art of a lie by Laura Shepherd Robinson July

Black Woods Blue Sky Eowyn Ivey August

I read Pillars Of The Earth before Christmas, my first Ken Follett book and loved it. Started World Without End NYD and will hopefully finish it today. Hoping to read the rest of the series and The Fall of Giants series , as they’re all thick books would be happy with that this year.
Also got bought ACOTAR series , and The Hidden Sister Lucinda Riley for Christmas so that’s another 2 for the list.

I'm of to Howarth soon so I'm rereading all the Bronte novels to refresh my memory and make the visit more immersive.

@BraveBlueDuck Did you end up reading The Sinner and The Ritual? What did you think?

Someone recommended Sierra Simone but I didn't pick it up yet.

I started reading Haunting Adeline and prepared myself for the worst, but it wasn't that bad it's a simple and easy to read writing style. The only thing I'm confused about is double POV this breaks my immersion if I know what both of them are thinking.

Maybe I will finish it, not sure yet.

I read 100 books last year and am currently on book 17.
I'd like to read the Hilary Mantle books at some point.
I'm not a huge fan of classic literature.

Have you read Britt-Marie was here?

No not yet - any good?