My October 2025 Reading List

I have two months left to complete my 175 book challenge for 2025. I completed 15 books during October. Reading brings me so much joy and I continue to learn something with every book I finish. Reading takes you into a different world, a different perspective and opens doors that allow you to try new things and see the world in a different way. I really enjoy historical fiction because I learn so much about other cultures and aspects of events that happen in other countries. So, I keep reading and learning and, sometimes, just enjoying a really good story that helps me relax.

Fiction
Sun Storm by Asa Larsson and Marlain Delargy
This novel is pure suspense, a murder, conspiracy, and a killer with motives to destroy.

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
This Latin American work is a saga that spans decades and lives, twinning the personal and the political into an epic story of love, magic, and fate.

Before She Finds Me by Heather Chavez
This is a thriller that involves a hired killer and a mother protecting her family.

We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Two friends from different worlds, one black and one white, tell the story from their own perspective when their friendship is completely altered by a tragic event.

Not that I Could Tell by Jessica Strawser
When one woman from a friend group disappears, there is more to the story and everyone jumps to their own conclusions.

Snap by Susin Nielsen
Three people make a mistake and must pay the consequences, together.

Non-Fiction
Paula by Isabel Allende
A poignant story of Isabel’s own daughters illness and the story of their lives.

Consider This by Prem Boaz
An engineer answers significant questions raised by young adults about God.

The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way
by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
Every moment in our lives happens only once, and if we let it slip away, it is gone forever.

The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage by Richard Rohr
How do we live compassionately in a time of violence and despair?

Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
If we connect with the stillness within, we move beyond our active minds and emotions and discover great depths of lasting peace, contentment and serenity. There is a way out of suffering and into peace.

Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
In this book, Polley explores what it is to live in one’s body – through trauma, stage fright, child birth, etc. – as she is in a constant state of becoming, learning and changing.

Limited to Limitless: Escape the Prison of Your Mind and Free Your Soul by Howard Mann
Have you ever wondered if you’re something more than your titles or the roles you play in life? You can discover that you really are limitless.

107 Days by Kamala Harris
The story of the 107 days between Joe Biden stepping down and election. Honest and raw and poignant.

Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People: Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities by Renee Evenson
This book offers 5 steps to deal with any difficult personality anywhere in your life.