Year of reading 2025: Part 1 – My top 23 books

Year of reading 2025
Part 1
 My top 23 books

To follow my tradition, here is part 1 of my yearly recap.
I’m combining it with Top Ten Tuesday (Best books I read in 2025)

There is a total of 3 parts: for my yearly recap:

  1. my favorite books, with my usual categories, see here below
  2. my stats
  3. my fun list with titles 

2025 was a great year, with 34% of 5 stars rating (53 out of 156 books)
– that’s an average of 8.10 per book,
so it was not easy to pick a winner for each of my categories.
As usual, the final choice here below is based not only on the quality of the book,
but also on how it resonated with me and my own experience,
and on how it stayed with me.

MY FAVORITE BOOKS READ IN 2025

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BOOKS READ ON PAPER
FICTION

Thousand Cranes

HISTFIC

nothing

NONFIC

Hokusai

SCIFI

Cyborg Fever

MYST

Hôtel du Grand Cerf

BOOKS READ AS EBOOKS
FICTION

Confusion

HISTFIC

Mémoires d'Hadrien

NONFIC

Mishima ou la vision du vide

SCIFI

Artificial Wisdom

MYST

L'Avocat du diable

BOOKS LISTENED TO
FICTION

Strange Weather in Tokyo

HISTFIC

Les Ombres du monde

NONFIC

Entangled Life

SCIFI

Frankenstein

MYST

Voici demain

BOOKS IN MANGA/GRAPHIC-NOVEL FORMAT
FICTION

Cat + Gamer 8

HISTFIC

Hokusai's daughter

NONFIC

Hostage

SCIFI

Dinosaur Sanctuary

MYST

Case Closed #1

OTHER
MIDDLE GR

The Girl and the Robot

POETRY

Leaves of Grass

SPIRITUAL

Eternity in the Moment

BEST COVER

Tokyo on Foot

If I had to pick one favorite of them all, it could be
Les Ombres du Monde, by Michel Bussi (audio, historical fiction).

This list is charateristic of my reading,
with 7 books connected to Japan,
7 to France – and Marguerite Yourcenar manages to have 2 books featured!
And a total of 6 classics.

DO YOU HAVE SOME FAVORITES
IN COMMON WITH MINE?

MORE FUN RECAP TOMORROW!

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF READING TO YOU!

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Nonfiction November and NovellasinNovember 2025: recap

Noncfiction November 2025

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#NonficNov
#NovNov25

November is always a super busy month for book bloggers, and I only participate in three events!
Yesterday, I published my recap for #scifimonth, so here is one today for Nonfiction November and Novellas in November.

I actually only read 1 nonfiction (which was a novella size), and a total of 4 novellas.
I
reviewed a total of 5 nonfiction:

 A Little Tour in France West Wind 

 Entangled Life Orwell's Roses 

The Secret Life of the Owl

Non nonfiction novellas:

 La Guerre des mouches Summer Frost 

I published a total of 11 posts for this event.
Here is the list of those that were not book reviews:

I added only 1 novella to my TBR in November. It’s a vintage French scifi:

L'Agonie du globe

Both were great events, thanks to all our hosts!

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HOW WAS YOUR NONFICTION and NOVELLA MONTH?

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Book review: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

Entangled Life

🎧 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake
Narrated by Merlin Sheldrake
2020
Nonfiction / Nature / Fungi / Biology
352 pages / 9H32
It counts for #Nonficnov

I think Merlin Sheldrake‘s Entangled Life is going to be my most favorite nonfiction book of the year, and it’s funny that we have mushrooms on our banner this year for #Nonficnov, as I so loved this book on fungi!

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