2025 favorites

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I put up a favorites list a while ago, but that was an older one - 2022, I think it was? But I made another one at work lately - I wrote it down in my TN that I haul back and forth to work these days.

I was looking mostly at the Kindle when I made this - I wrote down that I have 707 books on my Kindle. (Wonder if Rob realizes I have that many. He thinks I spend too much money anyway! Of course a lot of them were whatever's on sale - 99 cents or $1.99, many of them, anyway. Still, even that adds up.)

So, favorites:

series
Hobbit/Lord of the Rings (of course)
The Magicians
World of the Five Gods (this one has multiple names - Chalion, Penric) - Bujold
Graceling series (doesn't it also have another name?) - Cashore
The Expanse
Game of Thrones
Dune series (but only the first three)
The Golden Compass/His Dark Materials
October Daye series - McGuire
Cormoran Strike mysteries
Miss Marple, especially the earliest ones
Beekeeper's Apprentice series
Shelby Foote's Civil War books (even if they are way too sympathetic to the losing side)


standalones
Austen: Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense & Sensibility
McKinley: The Blue Sword, Spindle's End
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
The Martian
Howl's Moving Castle
Good Omens
Doomsday Book (this is my favorite of the Oxford time-travel books)


(I definitely trend towards fantasy, don't I?)