Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Spring 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 always find it quite interesting to look back on these lists and see which ones I actually managed to read, and which are still outstanding! The books I currently have on my TBR are pretty much my Reading Challenge books, so it’s a mix of physical, digital and audio.

Spring TBR

The Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten / The Fairy Tellers by Nicholas Jubber
(Musicals Reading Challenge 2025)

These are both on my Musicals challenge, which I want to read more of in the coming months. I’m really excited for these two though; they’re both ebooks, with The Hemlock Queen being the sequel to The Foxglove King, which I loved, and The Fairy Tellers exploring the history behind fairy tales.

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert / In Memoriam by Alice Winn
(Romance Readers Diversity Challenge 2025)

These are two books I kind of feel bad about not having read by now! They’re definitely ones I’m looking forward to, and I have physical copies for both, so it’s just about finding the time. The challenge itself is currently on 2/12, and I think it won’t be long before that number gets even higher.

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (2025 TV Shows Reading Challenge) / Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Be curious – Non-Fiction Challenge 2025)

I’m currently on 3/12 books each for these challenges, and I’ll be over the moon if I can get halfway through either one – or even possibly complete one! – before we hit the year’s halfway mark. We’ll see. The Southern Book Club is an audiobook, and Under the Banner of Heaven is a paperback, so getting to both of these will depend on reading other audio/physical books for other challenges, but that’s largely why I try and have a mix of formats across the different challenges I’m doing.

The Story of Cardiff by Nick Shepley (Musicals Reading Challenge 2025) / The Girl With No Reflection by Keshe Chow (2025 TV Shows Reading Challenge)

If I manage to read all of the above, it’ll bring all of my challenges up to 4 books each. So I’d be looking to go back through them. The Story of Cardiff is definitely high on my list – it’s my partner’s, and he’s read it, and said it contains lots of excellent information about the history of my home city. As for The Girl With No Reflection, I’m really looking forward to this fairy tale retelling!

We Can Be Heroes by Paul Burston (Be curious – Non-Fiction Challenge 2025) / Unladylike Lessons in Love by Amita Murray (Romance Readers Diversity Challenge 2025)

Both of these I’ve had on my Kindle for a while, and I’m intrigued and curious about them in equal measure, for different reasons. Definitely want to get to these relatively soon, and I think they’ll both prove very different but equally rewarding reading experiences!

So, this is my TBR for the next few months, and I’m really excited for the books I have coming up! Checking my Winter TBR, I did manage to read 4 of them, and I’m currently reading another one, and 2 of them are noted above as ones coming up, so I think that’s pretty good going!