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Books Are My People
Best Books of 2025
Check out my top reads of 2025. I also include some books I read in 2025 that were previously published. I share what craft I'm struggling with, what Thanksgiving crop I grew this year as well as some bookish news.
Books Published in 2025 Mentioned:
Heart The Lover by Lily King
The Ten-Year Affair by Erin Somers
A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
Runs in the Blood by Matthew J. Trafford
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Endling by Maria Reva
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley
Books Published Other Years:
This Motherless Land by Nikki May
How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
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