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Jessica’s Top 5 for 2025

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (audible audiobook read by David Horovitch)

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

The Man Born to Be King by Dorothy L. Sayers

Island of the World by Michael O’Brien

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Hannah’s Top 5 for 2025

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

An Unsuitable Attachment, Excellent Women, No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym

The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

Kelsie’s Top 5 for 2025

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Helena by Evelyn Waugh

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

This is Happiness by Niall Williams

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

Other Books/Things Mentioned

The Top Ten Novels I Read in 2024 by Dominika

The Odyssey by Homer

Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark

4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

Lord Peter Wimsey Books by Dorothy L. Sayers

Close Reads Podcast HQ Episodes on Bridge of San Luis Rey

Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor

“The writers who ruin all other writers for you” by Dominika

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Literary Life Podcast Episode 301: Alduous Huxley’s Brave New World

Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

“Is The Erstwhile Boss Babe Interested in Tradwifing It On A Budget” by Lane Scott

Shakespeare In A Year by Taylor D'Amico

Ballad of the White Horse

“Thetis and Achilles”

The Good Death of Kate Montclair by DANIEL McINERNY

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Norms and Nobility by David Hicks

How To Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key

Noted by Annelise Roberts

Attic Thoughts by Katie Marquette

The Moderate Midwife Ann Ledbetter

What We’re Reading Next:

January

Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

February-April

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

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