My reading in 2025 is likely to be dominated by my sailing across the Pacific…..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.
An African History of Africa – Zeinab Badawi
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad, based in Africa, beautifully written and ever so slightly weird!
Death Row – Freida McFadden
Dead Aid – Dambisa Moyo, which completes thirty books read during 2025.
It has been a busy year, especially during the periods I sold the Wildbeast in Guatemala in March and when I bought Alice in May & June.
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