physical books: 20

audiobooks: 12

ebooks: 3

total books: 35

i started listening to audiobooks this year and i love them sm!! i still prefer to read a physical book, but audiobooks are so perfect for when i'm in the car, craving the comfort of books. my reading habits are very inconsistent, i go through phases of reading multiple books a week and then not reading for a month haha. please note that i am reflecting on some of these books almost a year later, so i apologize if i misremember details. i also gave up on star ratings halfway through the year, so i probably won't include those for the mostpart.

• "jane & edward" by melodie edwards

format: physical book, completed: 1/1/25

this is a modern retelling of "jane eyre" (which i love!) that i received for xmas last year. i remember thinking it was a cute romance book and i liked the character's personality. i think the character based off mr. rochester was much nicer in this, so that was a definitely a positive haha. i enjoyed how the characters representing jane eyre and mr. rochester's personalities didn't feeling like exact copies of them. characters are influenced by their time period, so i was happy they didn't feel like victorian characters copied and pasted into a modern story if that makes sense??? (bare with me, i ramble sometimes)

• "the search" by suzanne woods fisher

format: physical book, completed: 1/5/25

• "it's in his kiss" by julia quinn

format: physical book, completed: 2/2/25

• "ella minnow pea" by mark dunn

format: physical book, completed: 2/5/25

• "stop overthinking" by nick trenton

format: physical book, completed: 2/10/25

• "goblin mode" by mckayla coyle

format: physical book, completed: 2/14/25

• "the yellow wall-paper" by charlotte perkins gilman

format: ebook, completed: 2/14/25

• "the traveling tea ladies: death in dallas" by melanie o'hara-saylers

format: physical book, completed: 3/24/25

• "the evolution of fashion" by florence mary gardiner

format: ebook, completed: 4/17/25

• "the magnum opus: seek and you shall find" by christine & christopher kezelos

format: physical book, completed: 4/24/25

• "the thirty-nine steps" by john buchnan

format: audiobook, completed: 5/7/25

• "how to be a stoic" by massimo pigliucci

format: physical book, completed: 5/10/25

• "you are here" by david nicholls

format: audiobook, completed: 5/11/25

• "circe" by madeline miller

format: physical book, completed: 5/27/25

• "little altars everywhere" by rebecca willis

format: physical book, completed: 6/4/25

• "all about love" by bell hooks

format: physical book, completed: 6/9/25

• "the dutch house" by ann patchett

format: physical book, completed: 6/15/25

• "an african history of africa" by zeinab badawi

format: audiobook, completed: 6/17/25

• "the art of living" by thich nhat hanh

format: audiobook, completed: 6/25/25

• "the edge of lost" by kristina mcmorris

format: physical book, completed: 6/26/25

• "the honey witch" by sydney j. shields

format: audiobook, completed: 7/1/25

• "small things like these" by claire keegan

format: ebook, completed: 7/2/25

• "i who have never known men" by jacqueline harpman

format: physical book, completed: 7/5/25

• "the third gilmore girl" by kelly bishop

format: audiobook, completed: 7/8/25

• "the bell jar" by sylvia plath

format: physical book, completed: 7/12/25

• "the courage to be disliked" by fumitake koga & ichiro kishimi

format: audiobook, completed: 7/15/25

• "talking as fast as i can" by lauren graham

format: audiobook, completed: 8/6/25

• "the coddling of the american mind" by greg lukianoff & johnathan haidt

format: audiobook, completed: 8/16/25

• "four thousand weeks: time management for mortals" by oliver burkeman

format: audiobook, completed: 8/25/25

• "girl, woman, other" by bernardine evarista

format: physical book, completed: 8/26/25

• "witches get stuff done" by molly harper

format: physical book, completed: 9/24/25

• "normal people" by sally rooney

format: physical book, completed: 10/2/25

• "how to keep house while drowning" by k.c. davis

format: audiobook, completed: 10/17/25

• "the things you can see only when you slow down" by haemin sunim

format: audiobook, completed: 11/6/25

• "the little book of hygge" by meik wiking

format: physical book, completed: 12/6/25

pov: i keep starting books instead of finishing the ones i'm already reading...

• "cat's eye" by margaret atwood
• "a healthy state of pan!c" by farnoosh torabi
• "self reliance & other essays" by ralph waldo emerson
• "from the horse's point of view" by debbie stelgic
• "the portable dorothy parker"

coming soon...