Books Read – December 2025

31 12 2025

December 2025 – 12

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard

Counting My Chickens…and Other Home Thoughts by Deborah Vivian Mitford Freeman-Cavendish, Dutchess of Devonshire

Wait for Me!: Memoir by Deborah Vivian Mitford Freeman-Cavendish, Dutchess of Devonshire

Spirit of the Horse: A Celebration in Fact and Fable by William Shatner and Jeff Rovin

Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough

The Santa Claus Stories by L. Frank Baum

Old Christmas by Washington Irving

The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

Something to Look Forward To: Fictions by Fannie Flagg

Tis Herself: A Memoir by Maureen O’Hara and John Nicoletti

Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, A Family’s Genetic Destiny, and the Science that Rescued Them by Gina Kolata

The Hummingbird Wizard by Meredith Blevins

93 books read in 2025. Hope you enjoyed the list and maybe read some of the books.

Happy New Year!





Books Read November 2025

30 11 2025

November 2025 – 5

Prairie Shadows: Montana Memories by David Tippetts

Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life by Lynn Haney

Familiaris by David Wroblewski

And Furthermore by Judi Dench and John Miller

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones





Books Read October 2025

1 11 2025

October 2025 – 6

Henry Clay: America’s Greatest Statesman by Harlow Giles Unger

American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked A Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger

Pale Pink Roads: A journey of Faith, Pedals and American Byways by Joe Tarantino

The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien (grandson of J. R. R.Tolkien)

Driving Home Naked and other Misadventure of Country Veterinarian by Melinda G. McCall, D. V. M.

Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor by Dr. C. Lamont MacMillan





Books Read in September 2025

1 10 2025

September 2025 – 7

The Elephant to Hollywood by Michael Caine

Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II by Kathryn Warner

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski

Simple Abundance Companionby Sarah Ban Breathnach

The Last Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret Graves





Book Read

1 09 2025

August 2025 – 6

A Change in the World by Steve J Pemberton

The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion: A Novel by Fannie Flagg

The Revolutionary War Life and Letters of Henry and Lucy Knox by Phillip Hamilton

Richard III: England’s Most Controversal King by Chris Skidmore

Something More: Excavating your Authentic Self by Sarah Ban Breathnach

The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages by J. F. Andrews





Books Read in July 2025

1 08 2025

July 2025 – 11

1812: The War That Forged A Nation by Walter R. Borneman

Special Relationships: People and Places by Asa Briggs

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy

Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Patricia Brady

Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth and the Wars of Religion by Susan Ronald

The Mystery of King John’s Treasure by Shirley Charters

The Plantagenets:The Warrior Kings and Queens who made England by Dan Jones

Horse-Drawn Sickle Bar Cutter: A Memoir by Robert Merrick Fuller

The Red Duke: The Life of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carrtwright

You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck

Icarus Adrift (Sam Reilly # 35) by Christopher Cartwright





Book Read in June 2025

1 07 2025

June 2025 – 11

Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals by Amy Licence

Abyss Codex (Sam Reilly # 33) by Christopher Cartwright

Caliburn’s Fight (Sam Reilly #34) by Christopher Cartwright

The Wars of the Roses by Michael Hicks

Considering Doris Day by Tom Santopietro

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starbey

The Maids of Biddenden by G. D. Harper

The Invincible Miss Cust by Penny Haw

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Sissy Spacek and Mary Ann Vollers

Summer World by Bernd Heinrich

The Heartbeat Library by Laura Imai Messine





Book Read in May

31 05 2025

May 2025 – 7

Medallion of Petra (Sam Reilly #29) by Christopher Cartwright

The Relic Hunter (Sam Reilly #30) By Christopher Cartwright

The Elixir of Life (Sam Reilly #31) by Christopher Cartwright

Necropolis of the Gods (Sam Reilly #32) by Christopher Cartwright

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution by John F. Luzander

Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher by Robin Harris





Books Read in April 2025

2 05 2025

April 2025 – 7

A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World by Paul A Johngard

Medieval Military Medicine: From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages by Brian Burfield

Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Amoung the Pilgrims by David Lindsay

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri

Skeleton Crew (Sam Reilly #27) by Christopher Carrtwright

The Midas Vault (Sam Reilly #28) by Christopher Cartwright





Books Read in March 2025

1 04 2025

March 2025 – 7

The Granddaughters of Edward III by Kathryn Warner

Robert the Bruce:King of Scots by Ronald McNair Scott

Motorcycle Days: Zen: A Hesitant Beginning by Robert Antweiler

The Dark Ages: 476 – 918, Books 1-3 by Charles Oman

Twice a Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Sisterhood by Julie Ryan McGue

Edison by Edmund Morris

Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad and the Empire of A. D. 800 by Jeff Sypeck





Books Read February 2025

2 03 2025

February 2025 – 6

Bear and Girl: A Story of Hope, Friendship and Strength by James Peter Behr

Harvest: an Adventure in the Heart of America’s Family Farms by Richard Horan

Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments and Assorted Hijinks by Dick Cavett

Light-Horse Harry: A Biography of Washington’s Great Cavalryman, General Henry Lee by Noel B. Green

King John, Henry III and England’s Lost Civil War by John Paul Davis

Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father by Peter Stark





Books

9 02 2025

Here are the book I read in January 2025.

January 2025 – 8

A Daughter’s Love:Thomas More and His Dearest Meg by John Guy

A Fine Romance by Candice Bergen

How Iowa Conquered the World: The Story of the Snall Farm State’s Journey to Global Dominance by Michael Rank

The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt

The Garner Files: A Memoir by James Garner and Jon Winokur

The Fight:A Secret Service Agent’s Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine by Dan Bongino

Grandmother and the Priests: Stories by Taylor Caldwell

Talk Show: Confrontations, Political Commentary and Off-Screen Secrets by Dick Cavett








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