05. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

This prompt is such a fun callback to last year's reading. The book you read this week should be related to something you read in 2025.

Some ideas for connections:
- Same author/series
- Same character names
- Same setting
- Same awards won
- Same color cover
- Featured on the same lists
- Same publication year
- Same page count

The list goes on! Obviously, some of these connections are easier to make than others, so challenge yourself as you'd wish!

This is a pretty personal prompt, but we do have an ATY listopia for you to peruse, even if it's just to find out about new books!

ATY Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

What did you read in 2025, and how are they linked?

[Dixie]

I'm planning to read Oh, I Do Like to Be by the author of a book I really enjoyed this year, Gods Behaving Badly.

[Pam]

I'm thinking about using the book I am currently reading, Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon, and reading something specifically relating to it.
- Another book by Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Set in Hungary - People of the Book, The Bridge on the Drina, Girl at War, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
- Because there is a character named Daphne, a book by Daphne du Maurier: Mary Anne, The King's General
- Book involving any one of these groups of people: Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, paranormal practitioners, outlaw motorcyclists - an interesting rabbit hole to go down!
- Set during the Great Depression/Big Band Era

[LeahS]

I do seem to have several authors 'on repeat' this year, but for this particular prompt, I am following from reading Black Water Lilies with The Other Mother. Also planning To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface, having read The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone this year.

[Angie]

I'm not a fan of basing my reading on previous reads. It's especially tricky for me this year because I've not had a great year of reading. Working a lot. Lots of health problems.

So since the prompt says "something you read in 2025" and doesn't specify that it has to be a book, I'll probably read through a couple of Goodreads articles until I find something.

My other option is to do one of the upcoming Harry Potter full-cast audio books. I've already read the actual books, but I've been reading info about these new versions, and I'm really excited. They're great comfort reads, and I love a good full-cast audio.

[Charlsa]

I'm am going to make this easy and read the next book in Abby Jimenez newest series, The Night We Met

[Deborah]

current possibilities:

Aim to Misbehave

The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet

The Gruffalo's Child