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2025 books

Books I read:

-The Amish Clockmaker 

-The Orphan Keeper

-The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 1

-The Echo of Old Books

-The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 2

-The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 3

-The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 4

-The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 5

-Heart of the Matter

-The Housemaid

-The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 6

-The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 7

-The Island of Sea Women

-Romantic Comedy

-Never With You

-The Road Back to You

-The Rosie Project

-Okay for Now

-Follow the River

-Rock of our Redeemer

-And Then There Were None

-Nothing Like the Movies

-American Royals

-Celebrating a Christ-Centered Christmas

-Lady Tan's Circle of Women

-Snowed In

-Merry Ex-Mas

Books I listened to: 

-The Last House on the Street

-News of the World

-The False Prince

-Defend the Dawn

-The Runaway King

-The Lion Women of Tehran

-The Perks of Being a Wallflower

-Funny Story

-The Diamond Eye

-The Shadow Throne

-Tiny Beautiful Things

-The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

-Saints, Volume 1

-Destroy the Day

-The Anxious Generation

-True Biz

-South of the Buttonwood Tree

-How to Keep House While Drowning

-The Captive Kingdom

-The Favorites

-Long Way Home

-The Shattered Castle

-Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

-When the Moon is Low

-The Last Bookshop in London

-Miss Newbury's List

-When Crickets Cry

-Under a Flaming Sky

-Saints, Volume 2

-Better Than the Movies

-A Study of Scarlet

-City of Bones

-The Goose Girl

-The Forest of Vanishing Stars

-Majesty

-Royal Holiday

-Winter Street

-Christmas Shopaholic

Books read: 27

Books listened to: 38

65 books total for 2025!

(My favorites were: Emma M. Lion - Emma is up there in characters for me along with Anne Shirley and Jo March, The Island of Sea Women - fascinating history about Korea, Okay for Now, The Lion Women of Tehran, and The Diamond Eye - excellent narrator on audio)

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