Pam's 2025 Reading Challenge

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As per last year, I've started with 100 books and if I get near to that I will extend it.

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Initially posted this as a last read of 2024 then realised it has been counted as the first of 2025 as I finished it today:

The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Catchup:

Love and Loyalty: The story of Jane Austen’s secret love affair by Jan Margrave - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Legacy of Foulstone Manor by J C Briggs - reviewed -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Hill of Secrets by Galina Vromen - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and finally the last volume in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, The Dark Tower - reviewed -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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My recent reads:

Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne and Dave King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan -reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Catch up on reviews:

Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Blackburn Station by Karen H Lucia - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Circus at Devil's Landing by Debra Castaneda - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

This Fearful Thing by L M West - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Pines by Blake Crouch - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Cards on the Table - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Another catchup:

Midwinter Murder: Fireside Mysteries from the Queen of Crime an Agatha Christie short story collection - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

First Blood by Angela Marsons - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Deadly Algorithm by Debra E Blaine - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A Cotswold Christmas Mystery by Rebecca Tope - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Hunter by Tim Sullivan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Silent Scream by Angela Marsons - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Missing Ones by Patricia Gibney - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Caution: Death at Work by Rhys Dylan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and finally:

Verity by Colleen Hoover - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Big catchup:

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Klaus Barbie, Butcher of Lyons by Tom Bower - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

An apocalyptic trilogy by Kendall Talbot - First Fate - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Feral Fate - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Final Fate - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Devil in Gray by Graham Masterton - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Written in Blood by Caroline Graham - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Winter People by Phyllis A Whitney - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Yellowface - by R F Kuang - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Elizabeth's Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England by Robert Hutchinson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Torments by Michael J Malone - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Inheritors of Moonlyght Tower: War-time secrets linger on... by J C Briggs - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Two books by Debra Castaneda - The Devil's Shallows - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
The Copper Man - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Mountain of Souls by Marcus Lee - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Scarlet Dress by Louise Douglas - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and finally, The Complaints by Ian Rankin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Catch up, luckily fewer books this time mainly because one of them was so long:

It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Secret by the Lake by Louise Douglas - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The last two in Hilary Mantel's Cromwell trilogy - Bring Up the Bodies - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and The Mirror & the Light - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Can Her Glory Ever Fade?: A Life of Mary Seacole by Jay Margrave - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Seem to have overlooked to post any of the reviews I've been doing, since late June. So this is a big catchup

Signal Moon by Kate Quinn - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Newlywed by Anna Willett - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Beach Hut 512 by Dorothy Koomson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Three by Louise Douglas:
The Sea House - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Secrets Between Us - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The House by the Sea - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Series of six vols by Iain Rob Wright - The Hill - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Village - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Stand - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Road - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Turning Point - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Annihilation - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

plus a couple of others by same author:
The Gates - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Dark Ride - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Stephen Woodcock Undead Journals: Book 1: Winter Wakening - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

An Age of Winters by Gemma Liviero - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Two short story collections by T G Campbell - The Case of The Peculiar Portrait & Other Stories - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and
The Case of the Russian Rose & Other Stories - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Bomber Crew: Taking on the Reich by John Sweetman - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Root Witch by Debra Castenada - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Patterdale Plot by Rebecca Tope - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and finally a collection of short fiction by Dean Koontz, Strange Highways - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...