Books on My Winter 2024-2025 to-Read List

I spent a day planning out my 2025 year of reading, putting in some contemporary fiction and nonfiction, classics, and even a few picture books.

Here's what I hope to read this winter.

1. I am planning to read 24 Christmas-themed picture books this month. Beyond this, I've finished all my yearly challenges, so I plan to read whatever strikes my fancy for the month of December. I'm stuck in a bit of a scifi groove from November, so I'll probably continue with that---Books 3 and 4 of Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series, maybe Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven. 

2. I'm thinking about something uplifting for my first book of the year. I got a copy of The Day the World Came to Town for my birthday, and I've heard great things about it; that might be what I choose.

3. I was invited to join another face-to-face book club in my town, and how can I resist? The group will meet in January and discuss The Women by Kristen Hannah. Since the library has 2,560 holds (not kidding) on this book, and I gave my copy away unread (!) I shall probably have to purchase another copy. 

4. My naturalist book club is reading and discussing The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild in January, so that is another book I need to read in December.

5. January-February-March is traditionally a three-month celebration of Japanese Literature Month. I might like to read I Am a Cat by Natsumi Sōseki or The Master of Go or Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata in January.

6. I hope to read some classics for Black History Month in February. I might read The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes or Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington.

And who knows what else will come my way?

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