My reading in 2025 is likely to be dominated by my sailing across the Pacific…past adventures, historical fiction and authors local to the South Pacific and South East Asia. The feature image above includes some of the sailing guide books that are already offering guidance for my passages. EDIT: In February I sailed from Guatemala to Belize, and decided to sell the boat. So my choice of books to read is likely to change too!
9 Years on the 7 Seas – Ann E Brevig, is a beautiful book about a Norwegian couple’s nine year circumnavigation.
James – Percival Everett, after watching the movie American Fiction based on the book, Erasure, by the same author.
East of Eden – John Steinbeck…a truly awesome novel.
The Seventh Son – Sebastian Faulks.
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift
Disgrace – J M Coetzee
The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
North Woods – Daniel Mason
Is Peace Possible – Kathleen Lonsdale
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows.
The Map of Bones – Kate Mosse, following on from The Ghost Ship by the same author.
Barely Afloat, Mostly Adrift, Always Laughing – Emma Culshaw Bell.
The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides, for which I gave the maximum 5 Stars on Goodreads!
There Are Rivers in the Sky – Elif Shafak, for which I also gave 5 Stars on Goodreads!
The Canal Murders – J R Ellis
Beach Read – Emily Henry
Offshore – Penelope Fitzgerald
Pranayama: Lost in Translation – Angela Andrea Ashwin
The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald (again!) which mentioned Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov.
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov….simply tedious!
The Robben Island Shakespeare – Matthew Hahn
When the Lion Feeds – Wilbur Smith, and based in South Africa.
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith, and is based in Botswana.
Mrs Pollifax on Safari – Dorothy Gilman, and based in Zambia.
Dark Star Safari – Paul Theroux, a travelogue of his overland trip from Cairo to Cape Town.
I am now reading…A Good Man in Africa – William Boyd, and…
…An African History of Africa – Zeinab Badawi
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