Tag: top ten

• My Top Ten of 2025 (and some honorable mentions)

  Last year, I documented my favorite reads of the year in an essay, My Top Ten of 2024, and it was difficult narrowing my list of 60 books read down to 10 favorites. This year, I had an equally tough time because I had a great reading year with a total of 70 books, and…

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  December 30, 2025

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  A Happy Catastrophe, Atmosphere, book-review, books, Dear Miss Lake, Every Tom Dick and Harry, fiction, literature, Murder on the Marlow Belle, My Friends, novel, reading, The Christie Affair, The Correspondent, The Homemade God, The Impossible Fortune, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer, The Wedding People, The White Octopus Hotel, This is Not About Us, Through an Open Window, top ten, Virginia Evans, writer, writing

• My Top Ten of 2024

  With only two days of 2024 left, I think my reading stats are pretty set in stone, unless I finish off one more book before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve so I can end on an even number. I had a good reading year but my total number of books is a bit…

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  December 29, 2024

  books

  Amazon, Ann Napolitano, ARC, audiobook, book-review, books, Deborah Serra, Diane Parrish, Ebook, Elinor Lipman, Elizabeth Strout, Evie Woods, fiction, Katherine Center, Kindle, literature, NetGalley, novel, reading, Ruth Reichl, Sophia Kinsella, Susan Rieger], top ten, writer, writing