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‎_posts/2025-08-19-booklist.md‎

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<th>Date completed</th>
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<th>Rating (out of 5)</th>
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<td>Swimming in the Dark</td>
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<td>Tomasz Jedrowski</td>
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<td>2020</td>
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<td>Dec 2025</td>
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<td>4</td>
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<td>Euphoria</td>
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<td>Lily King</td>
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<td>2014</td>
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<td>Dec 2025</td>
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<td>3</td>
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<td>To Let</td>
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<td>John Galsworthy</td>
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<td>1921</td>
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<td>Dec 2025</td>
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<td>5</td>
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<td>In Chancery</td>
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<td>John Galsworthy</td>
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<td>1920</td>
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<td>Dec 2025</td>
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<td>4</td>
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<td>The Montessori Toddler</td>
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<td>Simone Davies</td>
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<td>2019</td>
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<td>Dec 2025</td>
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<td>5</td>
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<td>The Pleasing Hour</td>
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<td>Lily King</td>
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<td>1999</td>
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<td>Dec 2025</td>
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<td>4</td>
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<td>The Man of Property</td>
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<td>John Galsworthy</td>
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<td>1906</td>
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<td>Nov 2025</td>
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<td>4</td>
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<td>The Go-Between</td>
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<td>L. P. Hartley</td>
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<td>1953</td>
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<td>3</td>
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<td>Heart the Lover</td>
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<td>Lily King</td>
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<td>2025</td>
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<td>Nov 2025</td>
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<td>5</td>
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<td>The Jump-Off Creek</td>
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<td>Molly Gloss</td>
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<td>1989</td>
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<td>5</td>
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<td>Palaver</td>
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<td>Bryan Washington</td>
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<td>Nov 2025</td>
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<td>3</td>
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<td>Stoner</td>
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<td>John Williams</td>
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<td>1965</td>
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<td>4</td>
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<td>A Pair of Blue Eyes</td>
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<td>Thomas Hardy</td>
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<td>1873</td>
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<td>3</td>
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<td>The Old Wives' Tales</td>
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<td>Arnold Bennett</td>
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<td>1908</td>
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<td>5</td>
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<td>Daniel Deronda</td>
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<td>George Eliot</td>
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<td>1876</td>
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<td>4</td>
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<td>Writers and Lovers</td>
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<td>Lily King</td>
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<td>2020</td>
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<td>5</td>
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<td>Family Meal</td>
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<td>Bryan Washington</td>
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<td>2023</td>
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<td>5</td>
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<td>So Good to See You</td>
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<td>Francesca Hornak</td>

‎_posts/2025-12-21-recap.md‎

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- No 1-star books, three 2-star books: *Wineburg, Ohio*, *The Turmoil*, and *City of Night Birds*.
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25 5-star (not counting rereads). It was a good year for good books! Of those 25, the five I loved the most were:
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*Cold Comfort Farm* (1932)––girl moves in with cousins she's never met after her parents die. She proceeds to meddle in everyone's lives. Written in 1932 but set around a decade in the future, a future where there is no WWII (wild to read now). Tone and characters remind me somewhat of *I Capture the Castle*, one of my favorite books of all time (I'm due for a reread).
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*Heart the Lover* (2025)/*Writers and Lovers* (2020)––impossible not to discuss these together. I read *Writers and Lovers* first, an excellent love triangle set in 1990s Boston. *Heart the Lover* is fascinatingly both a prequel and a sequel to *Writers and Lovers*. The titles are bad. The books are great.
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*Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder* (2017)––I was full-on obsessed with the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a kid. As an adult, I've read a lot of Western and indigenous fiction. This book pulled together those things, providing the historical and family context behind the novels.
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- *Cold Comfort Farm* (1932)––girl moves in with cousins she's never met after her parents die. She proceeds to meddle in everyone's lives. Written in 1932 but set around a decade in the future, a future where there is no WWII (wild to read now). Tone and characters remind me somewhat of *I Capture the Castle*, one of my favorite books of all time (I'm due for a reread).
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- *Heart the Lover* (2025)/*Writers and Lovers* (2020)––impossible not to discuss these together. I read *Writers and Lovers* first, an excellent love triangle set in 1990s Boston. *Heart the Lover* is fascinatingly both a prequel and a sequel to *Writers and Lovers*. The titles are bad. The books are great.
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- *Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder* (2017)––I was full-on obsessed with the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a kid. As an adult, I've read a lot of Western and indigenous fiction. This book pulled together those things, providing the historical and family context behind the novels.
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Looking ahead to 2026. I don't like to set number goals because it makes reading less enjoyable for me. But next year I'd like to read at least a couple of books from my backlog shelf. Maybe 2026 is the year for *Comanche Empire*?

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