Blogmas Day 17: Top Ten Tuesday – Books on My Winter 2024-2025 to-Read List

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

I really like these TBR lists – it helps me look forward to and get excited for the books I have coming up next!

Winter TBR

2024

There are just a handful of books I would like to read before the end of this year, but it’s really hard to pick out the books from challenges at this stage – there’s a mix of digital and physical books, and chances are I’m not going to be able to read many more physicals, and maybe just a couple more digital books. But we’ll see how it goes.

A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole / The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

These are two books on my reading challenges I was really hoping to get to, and hopefully I (maybe) still can, but if not I’ll be looking for new ‘homes’ for these books, and the others I didn’t complete, in the reading challenges I’m attempting in 2025.

Cold Snap by Lindy Ryan / Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake

I’d love to get in at least one more Christmas book before the day itself – which one of these it is, completely depends in the mood I’m in if I get to it. Cold Snap is a horror novella, whereas Make the Season Bright is a sapphic Christmas romance. So could be either, really.

2025

The plan for 2025 is to basically ‘transfer’ as many of the books I haven’t read from previous challenges across to my new ones, but I can’t really do that until I know exactly which ones I won’t get to in 2024. So, I have planned out my initial reads in challenges I’m doing for 2025, and I still have the Netflix Challenge (oops) outstanding – do I get a prize for taking the longest to complete a challenge?

The Celts: Search for a Civilization by Alice Roberts (Be curious – Non-Fiction Challenge 2025) / Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Romance Readers Diversity Challenge 2025)

Firstly, I really want to read more non-fiction in 2025. I enjoy non-fiction, but often struggle to ‘fit’ it in with the reading challenges I’ve been doing. So! Time for a specifically non-fiction reading challenge, and starting with a book I’m very much looking forward to reading. And the romance challenge I’m really excited about, too – Get a Life has been on my TBR for ages, I loved the second book in the series, and it actually is on at least one of my 2024 challenges, but I thought it was the perfect book to kick off this challenge in the New Year.

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang (2025 SFF Title Challenge) / Seven Mercies by Elizabeth May, Laura Lam (Musicals Reading Challenge 2025)

I’ve very much looking forward to this title challenge – it’s something different for me, and gave me the opportunity to ask my partner to pick out a couple of the Star Wars book he’s been begging me to read for a long, long time. But I’m starting away from that particular galaxy for now. And of course, the musicals reading challenge is one I’ve created, and Seven Mercies popped in my head as a good match for the outlaw prompt.

The Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten (Musicals Reading Challenge 2025) / Cinder Ella by S.T. Lynn (Romance Readers Diversity Challenge 2025)

The above books are mostly physicals, so I thought I’d highlight these two as ebooks I’m likely to get to over winter. The Hemlock Queen is a sequel and one I’m very keen and excited to read, as I adored The Foxglove King. Cinder Ella has been sitting on my Kindle for a fair while, and this felt like an excellent opportunity to get to it.

As always, if you’ve read any of these and want to share your thoughts, or let me know what’s on your winter TBR, please do so. I’d love to hear from you.