“First Book of the Year” is a book bloggers’ event hosted annually by Sheila of Book Journey. Check out Sheila’s First Book of the Year post at https://bookjourney.net/2024/12/18/12th-annual-first-book-of-the-year/ to fill your TBR with a list of great books for 2025 reading.
My first book of 2025 is going to be Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson, which I bought on a trip to London last year and have been saving for the right time. (Kate Atkinson also has a new Jackson Brodie book just out, but I usually listen to those on audio, so I didn’t choose that.)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE GUARDIAN, BOOKLIST
This is the 12th annual First Book of the Year collage by Sheila! I completely missed 2019, as 2018 was apparently a bad blogging year for me, but I have joined in the fun for ten years, going back to 2015.
- First Book of 2024
- First Book of 2023
- First Book of 2022
- First Book of 2021
- First Book of 2020
- First Book of 2018
- First Book of 2017
- First Book of 2016
- First Book of 2015
I won’t make any specific reading resolutions this year, because I don’t usually keep them, but I do hope to keep up with book blogging a little more this year, and maybe get back to reviewing books again.
We’ll see! I made this same promise in 2021
With so much to worry about in the country and the world, best wishes to us all for at least a good reading year in 2025!