10 Books to Read in 2025 | Bookmas Day 6

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Welcome back to Such Fun Read.

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We're back for Bookmas Day 6 and let's make another reading goal for 2025.

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I understand that I didn't complete pretty much any of the reading goals that I set last year, but

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what is the fun in being realistic and not making goals that might make things even harder?

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I already talked about the series that I wanted to read in 2025.

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I now want to pick 10 books that I plan to read in 2025.

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I thought about picking 25 books, but let's be real here.

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Let me not make it the most difficult thing for myself.

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Also, these are books that I own.

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We'll get to the books that are released in 2025 at some point.

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I haven't really looked that far ahead yet.

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Number 1, Emma by Jane Austen.

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I am doing it.

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I will read Emma in 2025.

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It is happening.

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Hopefully, it isn't the only Jane Austen book I read in 2025, but this one is a must.

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Here is the summary.

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Emma is the story of Emma Woodhouse, a young girl from a good home that does not need the

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financial support of a husband and is determined not to marry.

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Emma however is not opposed to the idea of marriage for others and is determined to play

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matchmaker between several of the local citizens.

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In spite of Emma's resolve not to marry, she finds herself attracted to several men throughout

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the book and considers the prospect of marriage.

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I think this might be the first time I've ever looked up the book summary for Emma.

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I just feel like I've always known what it was about because I loved Coolest growing

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up.

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But yeah, I think this is the first time I've ever looked at the book summary for Emma.

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Interesting.

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Number two Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

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After doing the I'll get around to it later book tag, I noticed how I have the entire

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Wolf Hall trilogy on my shelves.

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Is it even called the Wolf Hall trilogy?

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Is it the Cromwell trilogy?

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I don't know.

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But I do know I've stopped myself from watching the TV show because I wanted to read this

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before doing that.

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I've had the book for a while now, and it's time.

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Here's the summary.

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England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster.

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If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war.

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Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of 20 years and marry Anne Boleyn.

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The Pope in most of Europe opposes him.

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And to this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell, a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully,

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both idealist and opportunist.

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Astute in reading people and implacable in his ambition.

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But Henry is volatile.

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One day tender, one day murderous.

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Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

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Number three Babel by R.F.

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Kwong.

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It is possible that I will read this before 2025, but if I don't, this is a must.

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Just like the others.

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I probably should not say must for all of them.

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I think having them on this list already states that.

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I really do like R.F.

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Kwong though.

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I enjoyed both the Poppy War, I really need to finish that series, and I enjoyed Yellow

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Face.

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That book was one of my favorite books I read last year.

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So what's this one about?

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1828.

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Robin Swift, orphaned by Calera and Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor

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Lavelle.

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There he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for

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the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation,

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also known as Babel.

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Babel is the world center for translation and more importantly, magic.

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Silverworking the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver

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bars has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire's

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quest for colonization.

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For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to pursuit of knowledge, but knowledge obeys

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power and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying

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his motherland.

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As the studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes

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Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion.

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When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide.

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Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require

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violence?

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Now is a society called Hermes like the luxury brand or is it Hermes?

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Did I say Hermes?

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I think I said Hermes.

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Let's move on.

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Number four, Blackbird Oracle by Deborah Harkness.

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Another one I could pick up before the end of the year, but if I don't, it's here.

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It's on this list.

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I am excited to get back into this world and see what's been going on with Matthew and

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Diana.

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I may end up finishing my reread of the first one and then go through the entire series

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before jumping into this new one, but I haven't decided that yet.

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Honestly, I don't even remember what this book is about.

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I don't even think I ever looked it up.

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I just saw a new book in the also series was coming out and I had to preorder it.

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Let's see what it's about.

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Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch

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and vampire geneticist, Matthew de Clermont, in A Discovery of Witches.

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Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found

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themselves at the center of a battle for a lost enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole

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782.

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Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the covenant

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between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana's family line.

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Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the congregation.

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They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca.

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Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents

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to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and

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answers a message from a great aunt she never knew existed.

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Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads,

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It's time you came home, Diana.

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On the hollow ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home and under the tutelage of Gwyneth,

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a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana.

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A confrontation with her family's dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even

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greater power is she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.

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Number 5.

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Empire Silence by Christopher Arruccio

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This went viral.

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This book got really popular earlier this year or was it last year?

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It just got popular.

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I remember seeing they needed to rush more to print because it kept being out of stock.

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Is the science fiction series, I believe it is a six book series?

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I guess I'll find out.

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Here is the summary.

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Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale

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in the galactic-spanning debut of the Sun Eaters series, merging the best of space opera

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and epic fantasy.

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It was not his war.

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The galaxy remembers him as a hero, the man who burned every last alien seal sin from

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the sky.

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They remember him as a monster, the devil who destroyed the sun, casually annihilating

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four billion human lives, even the emperor himself, against imperial orders.

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But Hadrian was not a hero.

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He was not a monster.

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He was not even a soldier.

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On the wrong planet at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down

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a path that can only end in fire.

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He flees his father in the future as a torturer, only to be left stranded on a strange backwater

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world.

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Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court,

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Hadrian must fight a war he did not start.

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For an empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.

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Number 6, Svartekrigen by M.L.

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Wang.

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I have heard great things about this author.

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I think this one is a standalone fantasy and I don't normally read those, so this will

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be interesting.

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I thought I guess Babel would be considered a standalone fantasy too.

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I think.

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Anyway, here's the summary.

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On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaganese Empire lived the most powerful warriors in

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the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice.

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For hundreds of years, the fires of the Kusunagi Peninsula have held the empire's enemies

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at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name the Svartekrigen.

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Born into Kusagini's legendary Matsuda family, 14-year-old Momora has always known his purpose,

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to master his family's fighting techniques and defend his homeland.

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But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain of Kagan's alleged Age of Peace,

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Momora realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to

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be.

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Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies.

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Masaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into

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the Matsuda house.

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Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything

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from her days as a fighter in a faraway country.

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But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an

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impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves,

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Masaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.

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When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength

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to defend their empire, or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even

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reach their shores?

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Number 7.

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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Nefinegger

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I saw the movie.

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I didn't watch the TV show that came out a few years ago, though.

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I've heard the book is so much better than the movie.

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I mean, I'm not surprised.

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That is usually the case.

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This book has sat on my shelf for a while now, and it is about time that I read it.

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Here is a summary.

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Henry de Tambeau is a dashing, adventurous librarian who is at the mercy of his random

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time-traveling abilities.

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Claire Abshire is an artist whose life moves through a natural sequential course.

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This is a celebrated and timeless tale of their love.

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Henry and Claire's passion affair is built and endures across a sea of time and captures

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them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate embasked in the bonds

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of love.

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Number 8.

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The Love Songs of W.E.B.

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Du Bois by Honoree Fanon Jeffers

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A number of books I have on this list are pretty big books.

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This one is no exception.

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I think I want to put bigger books on here so that I will make an effort to read them.

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I'm excited for this one, too.

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Kind of forgot I had it on my shelf, to be honest.

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Let's look at the summary.

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An intimate yet sweeping novel that chronicles the journey of one American family from the

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centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era.

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The great scholar W.E.B.

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Du Bois once wrote about the problem of race in America in what he called double consciousness,

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a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive.

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Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois' words all too well.

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Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans, the revere choreographer Alvin Ailey and her

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great-grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers, Ailey

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carries Du Bois' problem on her shoulders.

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Ailey is rooted in the north in the city but spends summers in the small Georgia town of

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Chickaseta where her mother's family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa

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in bondage.

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From an early age, Ailey fights about for belonging that's made all the more difficult

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by a hovering trauma as well as the whispers of women, her mother Belle, her sister Lydia,

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and a maternal line reaching back two centuries.

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That urged Ailey to succeed in her stead.

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To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's

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past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors, indigenous, Black and white,

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and the Deep South.

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In doing so, Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and

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resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story and the song

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of America itself.

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Number 9 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clark

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Another one that I didn't watch the TV show for because I wanted to read the book.

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I think this one is right up my alley.

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I may be in the mood for this one right now, but also I have other books I want to read

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so this one is going to have to wait.

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But I might pick this one up early at the beginning of the year.

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We'll see.

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Here is the summary.

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In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believed magic to have long since

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disappeared from England until the reclusive Mr. Norell refills his powers and becomes

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an overnight celebrity.

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After practicing magician then emerges the young and daring Jonathan Strange.

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He becomes Norell's pupil and the two joint forces in the war against France.

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But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic and he soon risked

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sacrificing his partnership with Norell and everything else he holds dear.

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And the last book I have on this list at number 10.

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The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

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I know I need to complete the Mistborn trilogy, but I'm seeing all of these people so excited

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for the new book in this series to come out.

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It makes me want to read this one too and catch up.

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Here is the summary.

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Roshir is a world of stone and storms.

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Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that

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they have shaped ecology and civilization alike.

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Hills hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into a soilless ground.

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Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

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It has been centuries since the fall of the Ten Consecrated Orders known as the Knights

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Radiant, but their shard blades and shard plate remain.

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Mystical swords ensues to farm them that transform ordinary men into near-invisible warriors.

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Men trade kingdoms for shard blades, wars were fought for them and won by them.

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One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains.

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There Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother,

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has been reduced to slavery.

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In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he

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struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

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Bright Lord Daelnor Carlin commands one of those other armies.

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Like his brother, the late King, he is fascinated by an ancient text called the Way of Kings.

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Traveled by overpowering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun

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to dial his own sanity.

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Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shalan seeks a train under an eminent scholar

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and a notorious heretic, Daelnor's niece, Jasna.

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Though she genuinely loves learning, Shalan's motives are less than pure.

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As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasna hints at secrets of the Knights

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Radiant and the true cause of the war.

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So those are the 10 books I want to read in 2025.

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I'm sure there are many other books I want to read.

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I know there are some that I want to reread, especially since some series have a book coming

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out in 2025 and that makes me want to remember what happened.

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I'm curious if you have a book or two or more on your shelves that you have to read in 2025.

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Let me know.

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But thank you so much for listening.

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