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2025 Bookish Books Reading Challenge (hosted by Yours Truly)

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30 / 30 bookish books. 100% done!

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2025 Cover Lovers Reading Challenge (hosted by Yours Truly)

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48 / 50 books. 96% done!

2025 Literary Escapes Challenge

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51 / 51 states. 100% done!

2025 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

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36 / 50 books. 72% done!

2025 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

2025 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

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42 / 50 books. 84% done!

Booklist Queen's 2025 Reading Challenge

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43 / 52 books. 83% done!

2025 52 Club Reading Challenge

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50 / 52 books. 96% done!

2025 Build Your Library Reading Challenge

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33 / 40 books. 83% done!

2025 Craving for Cozies Reading Challenge

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43 / 51 books. 84% done!

2025 Medical Examiner Mystery Reading Challenge

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26 / 26.2 miles. 99% done!

2025 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

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41 / 100 books. 41% done!

2025 Pick Your Poison Reading Challenge

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79 / 109 books. 72% done!

2025 Around the Year in 52 Books Reading Challenge

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60 / 62 books. 97% done!

Phase Out Your Seriesathon - My Progress


29 / 55 books. 53% done!

The 100 Most Common Last Names in the U.S. Reading Challenge

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98 / 100 names. 98% done!

The Life Skills Reading Challenge

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76 / 80 skills. 95% done!
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Top Ten Tuesday Wednesday: Winter TBR List


The closer it gets to Christmas and to my family's departure for our Holy Land trip on December 26, the crazier life becomes! So much to do, so little time. BUT, I didn't want to miss participating in Top Ten Tuesday this week, so here I am. (I started this post yesterday, but finished today, so I'm actually a day late. Oops!) This week's topic is Top Ten Books On My Winter TBR list. To be honest, I have no idea what I'm going to be reading this season, but I've come up with ten possibilities to share with you. 

As always, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl.



Also, be sure to scroll down on my blog and check out my posts about the two reading challenges I'm hosting this year: the Bookish Books Reading Challenge and the Cover Lovers Reading Challenge. They're both laidback and fun. Please consider joining me on these reading adventures! 

Top Ten Books On My Winter TBR


1. The Escape Game by Marissa Meyer and Tamara Moss (available April 7, 2026)—I have an e-ARC of this forthcoming YA murder mystery that takes place during the filming of an escape room-themed game show. Contestants on the newest season include the sister of a contestant who died during the last season and she's not just out to win, she wants justice. Sounds intriguing!


2. Pearls and Poison by Erin Lindsey—This is the fourth installment in the always entertaining Rose Gallagher series. Rose is a former housemaid who works with a team of investigators with special abilities to solve mysteries of the supernatural kind in Gilded Age New York City. Now a legit Pinkerton agent, Rose is on her own to investigate a case of missing jewels and a mysterious murder.


3. Atomic Habits by James Clear—I reread this inspirational book every January to motivate myself to set and achieve personal goals. 


4. Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson—On a visit to my local indie bookstore, Changing Hands, yesterday, I picked up this mystery novel. It's about two warring, cantankerous residents of a dilapidated apartment building. When they're informed their home will be demolished and another resident is subsequently being harrassed, the two join forces to find out who is behind the attacks and save their home.


5. The Dark Library by Mary Anna Evans—Estella Ecker never intended to return to Rockfall House, but now that her father has died and her mother has disappeared, she feels she has little choice. As Estella begins unearthing Rockfall's secrets, she discovers shocking truths that throw into question everything she thought she knew about her parents and herself.

6. Coach by Jason Reynolds—I have really enjoyed Reynolds' middle-grade series about an inner-city track team. Each novel is told from the perspective of a different member of the group. As indicated by this book's title, it is the story of the team's leader, Coach. 

If you decide to give this series a go (and you really should), try it on audio. Actor and singer Guy Lockard, who is a close personal friend of Reynolds, does an excellent job narrating the books.


7. We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter—This is the first book in a new mystery series. It's about a small, close-knit town that is rocked to its core when two local teenage girls disappear. As the police investigate, it soon becomes clear that they were both hiding terrible secrets. Did those secrets lead to their deaths? I've never read anything by Slaughter, so I'm excited to check her out.


8. An American in Scotland by Lucy Connelly—In this series opener, an American medical doctor trades in her chaotic existence in Seattle for the quiet life of a country doctor in a quaint Scottish town. She gets more than she bargains for when she discovers a dead body—and then finds out that in addition to being the town's doctor, she's also its coroner! Determined to find out what happened to the victim, she begins digging into the town's secrets, stirring up all kinds of trouble among its residents.


9. The Star Society by Gabriella Saab (available January 6, 2026)—After fighting the Nazis with the Dutch Resistance during World War II, Ada Worthington-Fox fled to the United States and has reinvented herself as a rising Hollywood starlet. When the sister she thought was dead turns up in California, Ada fears all the secrets from her past will be exposed, especially as it becomes clear that her sister has her own secrets and a mission that could destroy the new life Ada has worked so hard to build for herself. 


10. Bluebird by Sharon Cameron—Like #9, this YA historical novel deals with World War II refugees grappling with the aftermath of the atrocities of war. Eva, who knows the truth behind Project Bluebird, a monstrous experiment conducted in the concentration camps, has come to the United States seeking one thing: justice. She will stop at nothing to hunt down the Nazi behind it all. 

I've already read—and loved—Bluebird, but my book club just chose it as our January pick, so I'm going to reread it sometime in the next month. 

How about you? What's on your Winter TBR? I'd truly love to know. Leave me a comment on this post and I will gladly return the favor on your blog.

Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

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