Top Ten Tuesday ~ On a Wednesday ~ Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025 (New-to-me authors I discovered, new genres I learned I like, new bookish resources I found, friends I made, local bookshops I found, a book club I joined, etc.)

I have read a lot in my in my life. I have found what I like and what I dislike ages ago. Sometimes, I stumble upon a book that is not my genre and I like it. But that is a rare exception. Still, I found some new books which I really liked but they are all in my Top Twelve Tuesday ~ Best Books in 2025. But there are no new genres. Also no new bookshops since there is only one in our little town and I've known this for ages, even before we moved here.

2025 was Jane Austen's birthday year and I participated in the #Reading Austen project. I found lots of books about Jane Austen and re-read all of her books. I could have included all of them but I thought I also need to show some of the other great books I found during the year. So, here is my Top Twelve of 2025. Just add anything by or about Jane Austen in your mind.

Adkins, Roy & Lesley "Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago" (aka "Jane Austen's England) - 2013
Austen, Jane "The History of England: By a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian" - 1791

Brooks, Geraldine "Year of Wonders" - 2001
Deresiewicz, William "A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter" - 2011
Haig, Matt "The Midnight Library" - 2020
Harris, Kamala "107 Days" - 2025

Hislop, Victoria "The Figurine" - 2023
Mak, Geert "The Dream of Europe. Travels in a Troubled Continent" (NL: Grote verwachtingen. In Europa 1999-2019) - 2019

Mann, Heinrich "Professor Unrat" - The Blue Angel - 1904
Rushdie, Salman "Knife" - 2024
Takahashi, Yuta "The Chibineko Kitchen" (J: ちびねこ亭の思い出ごはん 黒猫と初恋サンドイッチ/Chibinekoteino omoidegohan kuronekoto hatsukoisandoitchi) - 2020
Worsley, Lucy "Jane Austen at Home" - 2017 

📚 Happy Reading 📚

This was supposed to be published at the end of January. But we had to attend a funeral and I totally forgot. Well, if anyone is interested, this is it.