mellicious | Books of 2025 (Reply)

I read 29 books that were new to me this year - starting with Jenny Colgan's 500 Miles From You in January and ending with Scalzi's Starter Villain yesterday. And then I've really been on a re-reading tear - I read over 100 books that I'd already read (and I'm at 104, actually, with 20 hours to go so I might still finish one more, who knows!). The "new" list included Rivers of London, Maguire's Son of a Witch, and let's see, maybe four Naomi Novik books - all of the Scholomance series plus Uprooted (all of which I liked a lot). And then the re-read list includes all of Lord of the Rings, a lot of Katherine Addison books (including Angel of the Crows, which I got really obsessed with for a while), a bunch of old Mary Stewart books, practically everything Lois Bujold has ever written... hmm, well, actually no, I skipped most of the Miles stuff this year, but practically everything else... anyway, you get the idea.

I usually do a movie list at the end of the year, too, but there hasn't been all that much I wanted to see. Rob has been to a ton of horror movies, but I only went to Cinemark with him a few times, I think - I know I saw One Battle After Another, which we both loved, and Wicked: For Good, which was not nearly as good as the first one (but wasn't bad, either) - and I'm pretty sure I saw at least a couple more things earlier in the year but I can't really remember what.