Books Read 2025

IN ORDER OF DATE COMPLETED (FROM JANUARY 1, 2025 ON) – CLICK ON LINK TO READ REVIEW

Dark Pines — Will Dean (audio book)
Don’t Let Him In — Lisa Jewell
Sweet Fury — Sash Bischoff (audio book)
The Perfect Home — Daniel Kenitz (audio book)
The Lotus Shoes — Jane Yang
Stolen — Ann-Helene Laestadius (audio book)
The Last Room on the Left — Leah Konen (audio book)
River of Lies — James L’Etoile (e-book)
Cross My Heart — Megan Collins (audio book)
The Lost House — Melissa Larsen (audio book)
Mask of the Deer Woman — Laurie L. Dove (audio book)
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls — Grady Hendrix (audio book)
Penitence — Kristin Koval (audio book)
Five Little Pigs — Agatha Christie
The Kennedy Girl — Julia Bryan Thomas (e-book)
Cross Down — James Patterson, Brendan DuBois
Head Cases – John McMahon (audio book)
Carolina Moonset — Matt Goldman (audio book)
Trust Issues — Elizabeth McCullough Keenan & Greg Wands (audio book)
Dead Money — Jakob Kerr (audio book)
The Dark Hours — Amy Jordan (e-book)
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus — Emma Knight
Not a Happy Family — Shari Lapena (audio book)
Into the Fall — Tamara L. Miller (e-book)
The Mother Next Door — Andrea Dunlop, Mike Weber (audio book)
A Killing Cold — Kate Alice Marshall (audio book)
A Game of Lies — Clare Mackintosh
After Life — Gayle Forman
The Queens of Crimes — Marie Benedict (audio book)
Bonded in Death — J.D. Robb
Blood Ties — Jo Nesbo
The Spy Coast — Tess Gerritsen (audio book)
Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave — Elle Cosimano (audio book)
The Dollhouse Academy — Margarita Montimore (audio book)
Lie in the Tide — Holly Danvers (e-book)
Nesting — Roisin O’Donnell (audio book)
You Are Fatally Invited — Ande Pliego (e-book)
Their Double Lives — Jaime Lynn Hendricks (e-book)
The Inheritance — Trisha Saklecha (e-book)
Tell Me What You Did — Carter Wilson
Famous Last Words — Gillian McAllister (audio book)
Isola — Allegra Goodman
Hallowe’en Party — Agatha Christie (reread)
Follow Me to Africa — Penny Haw
Remote: The Six — Eric Rickstad (audio book)
Wild Dark Shore — Charlotte McConaghy (audio book)
Girl Falling — Hayley Scrivenor (audio book)
The Undoing of Violet Claybourne — Emily Critchley (audio book)
Count My Lies — Sophie Stava
The Unworthy — Agustina Bazterrica
Three Act Tragedy — Agatha Christie
The Vanishing Kind — Alice Henderson
A Mother’s Love — Sara Blaedel (audio book)
The King’s Messenger — Susanna Kearsley
The Antidote — Karen Russell (audio book)
White King — Juan Gomez-Juardo
A Girl Like Us — Anna Sophia McLoughlin
My Friends — Fredrik Backman
Broken Country — Clare Leslie Hall (audio book)
The Unlucky Ones — Hannah Morrissey (audio book)
Gothictown — Emily Carpenter (audio book)
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice to Murderers — Jesse Q. Sutanto (audio book)
In the Woods — Tana French (audio book) (reread)
We Live Here Now — Sarah Pinborough
I Would Die For You — Sandie Jones (audio book)
Chase Harlem — Elise Burke Brown (e-book)
My Sister’s Shadow — January Gilchrist
This Book Will Bury Me — Ashley Winstead
The Summer Guests — Tess Gerritsen (audio book)
Follow Me — Elizabeth Rose Quinn
Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) — Jesse Q. Sutanto (audio book)
The Defense — Steve Cavanagh
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (reread) (audiobook)
The Sirens — Emilia Hart (audio book)
Karma Never Sleeps — R. John Dingle (e-book)
A Map to Paradise — Susan Meissner (audio book)
The Gatsby Gambit — Claire Anderson Wheeler (audio book)
Jill Is Not Happy — Kaira Rouda
The Perfect Marriage — Jeneva Rose (audio book)
Coram House — Bailey Seybolt (e-book)
The French Honeymoon — Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
Our Last Resort — Clemence Michallon
Where You End — Abbott Kahler (audio book)
The Perfect Divorce — Jeneva Rose (audio book)
The Bright Years — Sarah Damoff (audio book)
Such a Good Mom — Julia Spiro (audio book)
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng — Kylie Lee Baker (audio book)
The Plea — Steve Cavanagh
Forget Me Not — Stacy Willingham (e-book)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie
Heartwood — Amity Gaige (audio book)
The Correspondent — Virginia Evans (audio book)
See How They Fall — Rachel Paris
All the Other Mothers Hate Me — Sarah Harman
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding — Catherine Mack (audio book)
Parents Weekend — Alex Finlay (audio book)
The Missing Half — Ashley Flowers (audio book)
The Retirement Plan — Sue Hincenbergs (audio book)
Miles in Time — Lee Matthew Goldberg
The Amalfi Curse — Sarah Penner (audio book)
A Stranger in the House — Shari Lapena (audio book)
The Man Made of Smoke — Alex North (audio book)
Ask for Andrea — Noelle W. Ihli (audio book)
Hollywood Hustle — Jon Lindstrom (audio book)
The World’s Fair Quilt — Jennifer Chiaverini
To Catch a Storm — Mindy Mejia
The Parisian Chapter — Janet Skeslien Charles (audio book)
One in Four — Lucinda Berry (audio book)
Hello, Juliet — Samantha M. Bailey (audio book)
Thirteen — Steve Cavanagh (audio book)
The Twisted Women’s Book Club — Karin Slaughter & al (audio book)
So Happy Together — Olivia Worley (audio book)
Where the Rivers Merge — Mary Alice Monroe (audio book)
Yule Island — Johana Gustawsson (audio book)
Our Last Wild Days — Anna Bailey
The Last Ferry Out — Andrea Bartz (audio book)
King of Ashes — S.A. Cosby (audio book)
Beach House Rules — Kristy Woodsen Harvey (audio book)
Hidden Nature — Nora Roberts (audio book)
The Surf House — Lucy Clarke
Letters from Strangers — Susan Walter (audio book)
The ABC Murders — Agatha Christie (reread)
Guess Again — Charlie Donlea
The Martha’s Vineyard Beach & Book Club — Martha Hall Kelly (audio book)
Marguerite by the Lake — Mary Dixie Carter (audio book)
Fifty Fifty — Steve Cavanagh (audio book)
The Expat Affair — Kimberly Belle (audio book)
A World of Hurt — Mindy Meija (audio book)
The Ghostwriter — Julie Clark
I Did Warn Her — Sian Gilbert (audio book)
The Maid’s Secret — Nita Prose (audio book)
The Phoenix Pencil Company — Allison King (audio book)
Kill Your Darlings — Peter Swanson (audio book)
Blonde Dust — Tatiana de Rosnay (audio book)
The Bachelorette Party — Camilla Sten (audio book)
The Death Mask — Iris Johansen (audio book)
Last One Out — Steph Nelson (audio book)
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau — Kristin Harmel (audio book)
One Final Turn — Ashley Weaver (audio book)
Mapping the Interior — Stephen Graham Jones (audio book)
The Black Highway — Simon Toyne (audio book)
The Body in the Library — Agatha Christie
A Killer Motive — Hannah Mary McKinnon (e-book)
Party of Liars — Kelsey Cox (audio book)
The Woman in Cabin 10 — Ruth Ware (audio book) (reread)
The Accidental Favorite — Fran Littlewood (audio book)
Holy City — Henry Wise
White Horse — Erika T. Wurth (audio book)
The White Crow — Michael Robotham
The View from Lake Como — Adriana Trigiani (audio book)
The Blue Horse — Brue Borgos (audio book)
The Woman in Suite 11 – Ruth Ware
Nowhere — Allison Gunn
Such Quiet Girls — Noelle W. Ihli (audio book)
Remote: The Five — Eric Rickstad
Vantage Point — Sara Sligar (audio book)
The Goldens — Lauren Wilson (audio book)
Everyone is Lying to You — Jo Piazza (audio book)
Her Many Faces — Nikki Cloke (audio book)
The Astrology House — Carinn Jade
The Lake Escape — Jamie Day (audio book)
Too Old for This — Samantha Downing (audio book)
Close Call — Elise Hart Kipness (e-book)
Home Before Dark — Eva Bjorg Aejisdottir (e-book)
We Don’t Talk About Carol — Kristen L. Berry (audio book)
Before Dorothy — Hazel Gaynor (audio book)
You Belong Here — Megan Miranda (audio book)
She Didn’t See It Coming — Shari Lapena (audio book)
The Locked Ward — Sarah Pekkanen (audio book)
What’s Yours Is Mine — Jennifer Jabaley (audio book)
Husbands and Lovers — Beatriz Williams (audio book)
Murder in Mesopotamia — Agatha Christie
Murder at Gulls Nest — Jess Kidd
Under the Stars — Beatriz Williams (audio book)
We Are All Guilty Here — Karin Slaughter
Mad Mabel — Sally Hepworth
Last Seen — J.T. Ellison
Break Me Down — Anna Downes (audio book)
The Treasure Hunter’s Club — Tom Ryan
High Season — Katie Bishop (audio book)
The Devil’s Advocate — Steve Cavanagh (audio book)
Dead of Summer — Jessa Maxwell
The Tutor — Courtney Psak (audio book)
Iron Lake — William Kent Krueger (audio book)
The Witch’s Orchard — Archer Sullivan (audio book)
Next of Kin — Samantha Jayne Allen
And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie
The Frequency of Living Things — Nick Fuller Googins
Kiss Her Goodbye — Lisa Gardner (audio book)
This Is a Safe Space — Lucinda Berry (audio book)
Hunter’s Heart Ridge — Sarah Stewart Taylor
The Frozen People — Elly Griffiths (audio book)
Culpability — Bruce Holsinger (audio book)
One Dark Night — Hannah Richell
The Unseen — Ania Ahlborn (audio book)
Atmosphere — Taylor Jenkins Reid
What About the Bodies — Ken Jaworowski
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer — Ragnar Jonasson (audio book)
Boundary Waters — William Kent Krueger (audio book)
The Making of Jackson Parrish — Liv Constantine (audio book)
Alex Cross Must Die — James Patterson
Gone in the Night — Joanna Schaffhausen (audio book)
The Killer Question — Janice Hallett
All This Could Be Yours — Hank Phillippi Ryan (audio book)
Play Nice — Rachel Harrison (audio book)
Spider to the Fly — J.H. Markert
Crooks — Lou Berney
Other People’s Houses — Clare Mackintosh (audio book)
The Wasp Trap — Mark Edwards
No Rest for the Wicked — Rachel Louise Adams (audio book)
The Vanishing Place — Zoe Rankin
The Hunter’s Daughter — Nicola Solvinic (e-book)
The Chateau — Avery Bishop (audio book)
Too Close to Home — Seraphina Nova Glass (e-book)
The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco — Michelle Chouinard (audio book) (reread)
A Tour to Die For — Michelle Chouinard (audio book)
Bye, Baby — Carola Lovering (audio book)
The Whisper Place — Mindy Mejia
The Irish Goodbye — Heather Aimee O’Neill (audio book)
Murder at the Vicarage — Agatha Christie
Murder at 30,000 Feet — Susan Walter
The House of Cross — James Patterson
The Glass Man — Anders de la Motte (audio book)
The Hitchhikers — Chevy Stevens (audio book)
The Underdog — Sagit Schwartz (audio book)
Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier (audio book) (reread)
House of Beth — Kerry Cullen (audio book)
Keep This for Me — Jennifer Fawcett
The Hong Kong Widow — Kristen Loesch
The Graceview Patient — Caitlin Startling (audio book)
Body of Water — Adam Godfrey (audio book)
Murder by Invitation Only — Colleen Cambridge (audio book)
Not Good People — Audra McElyea (e-book)
The Gallery Assistant — Kate Belli
Bog Queen — Anna North (audio book)
The Widow — John Grisham (audio book)
The Wife Deserved It — Darby Kane (audio book)
Murder Takes the Stage — Colleen Cambridge (audio book)
The Farmhouse — Chelsea Conradt (audio book)
The Sister’s Curse — Nicola Solvinic (e-book)
Sharp Force — Patricia Cornwell (audio book)
Fiend — Alma Katsu (audio book)
Sad Cypress — Agatha Christie
After Midnight — Daphne du Maurier
Silent Creek — Tony Wirt
The Hunger We Passed Down — Jen Sookfong Lee
We Had a Hunch — Tom Ryan
We Used to Live Here – Marcus Kliewer (audio book)
The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold — Cate Holahan
The Cross — Steve Cavanagh (audio book)
Forget You Saw Her — Noelle Ihli (audio book)
Her One Regret — Donna Freitas (audio book)
In the Bones — Tessa Wegert
The Bone Thief — Vanessa Lillie (audio book)
With Friends Like These — Alissa Lee
Wings of Madness — R. John Dingle (e-book)
The Secret of the Three Fates — Jess Armstrong (audio book)
The Devil in Oxford — Jess Armstrong (audio book)
The Seven Rings — Nora Roberts
The Burning Library — Gilly Macmillan (audio book)
The Girl by the Bridge — Arnaldur Indridason
Year of Yes — Shonda Rhimes (audio book)
Bad Cree — Jessica Johns
Death & Dinuguan — Mia P. Manansala (audio book)
Haven’t Killed in Years — Amy K. Green
Return of the Spider — James Patterson
Evil Bones — Kathy Reichs (audio book)
Winston & the Windsors — Andrew Morton (audio book)
Where He Left Me — Nicole Baart (audio book)
Cursed Daughters — Oyinkan Braithwaite (audio book)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones (audio book)
They Came to Baghdad — Agatha Christie
Friends & Liars — Kit Frick
The Day I Lost You — Ruth Mancini (audio book)
You Deserve to Know — Aggie Blum Thompson
The Kill Clause — Lisa Unger (e-book)
The Italian Secret — Tara Moss (audio book)
If You Lie — Caleb Stephens (audio book)
Love, Mom — Iliana Xander
Canticle — Janet Rich Edwards
The Storm — Rachel Hawkins (audio book)
The Belles — Lacey N. Durham (audio book)
The Quiet Mother — Arnaldur Indridason
You’ll Never Know — Caleb Stephens (audio book)
Circle of Days — Ken Follett (audio book)
Needle Lake — Justine Champine (audio book)
My Husband’s Wife — Alice Feeney (audio book)
Boleyn Traitor — Philippa Gregory
Darker Days — Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Death on the Nile — Agatha Christie
Punished — Ann-Helen Laestadius
The Death of Us — Abigail Dean
25 Days — Per Jacobsen
Nightwatcher — Daphne Woolsoncraft (audio book)
Wildwood — Amy Pease
The Mad Wife – Meagan Church (audio book)
The Sleepwalker — Lars Kepler
Workhorse — Caroline Palmer (audio book)