Top Ten Tuesday: Books on my 2025 Spring TBR

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

This week’s prompt is:  Books on My Spring 2025 to-Read List

One book I read without fail every spring is Watership Down. It is my favorite book and I read it every year, and I have for years and years. I am not adding it to this list, but I wanted to mention it.

Ok, now the rest!

Those We Drown || Malamander || Of Salt and Shore

I am feeling very coastal and watery right now – maybe it is the thawing of the ice on our lakes and rivers here in Michigan, the spring rains, the mud, and just the wet damp of spring. Whatever it is, so many of the books I have saved on my TBR lately are water adjacent.

Those We Drown: An ocean-drenched, atmospheric horror debut! Liv’s best friend disappears on their first night aboard their dream semester-at-sea program—but is he really sick, like everyone says, or is something darker lurking beneath the water?

Malamander: Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous malamander creep…

Of Salt and Shore: Every evening Lampie the lighthouse keeper’s daughter must light a lantern to warn ships away from the rocks. But one stormy night disaster strikes. The lantern goes out, a ship is wrecked and an adventure begins.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea || Death Bee Comes Her || Gladwynn Grant Shakes the Family Tree

Somewhere Beyond the Sea: A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

Death Bee Comes Her: With her Let It Bee honey boutique buzzing along nicely, life is as sweet as nectar for Wren Johnson—until she takes a morning walk along the Pacific beach with her Havana Brown cat, Everett, and stumbles upon the body of Agnes Snow, the cranky queen of the local craft fairs, stiff as driftwood. More unfortunate? Clutched in the victim’s fist is a label from Wren’s homemade beeswax-and-honey lip balm. Which makes Officer Jim Hampton focus his dreamy-blue Paul Newman eyes on Wren as suspect number one.

Gladwynn Grant Shakes the Family Tree: Working as a small-town newspaper reporter and trying to keep up with her grandmother, Lucinda, has kept Gladwynn Grant busy, but, otherwise, life has been quiet.

Everything changes, though, when her older, aloof sister, Sheena, shows up unannounced at the front door. As if that isn’t enough to deal with, she finds one of her interview subjects dead.

Wormwood Abbey || When Women Were Dragons || A Study in Drowning

Wormwood Abbey: As a Victorian clergyman’s daughter, Edith Worms has seen everything — until a mythical salamander tumbles out of the fireplace into her lap.

When Women Were Dragons: A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. 

A Study in Drowning: Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him—is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin’s family announces a contest to redesign the late author’s estate, Effy feels certain it’s her destiny.

Raising Hare

I am so so excited to read this one!! I love rabbits, rabbit books, all things rabbit and this one sounds so good. Although I am scared of a sad ending. This is like Widow Tweed dreams, although she had a fox.

Raising Hare: Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and snoozed in your house for hours on end. This happened to me.

And that is it from me today! I can’t wait to hop around and see what everyone else is looking forward to reading!

58 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Books on my 2025 Spring TBR”

  7. I don’t think I recognize any of these authors, but Christina’s book looks interesting. 🙂 Every now and then I do like an interesting mystery book! Maybe that’s one I should add to my stack. Thanks so much for visiting my list today – and happy spring TBR reading to you!

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  10. As usual, an interesting collection of books. I’d be afraid of that hare one for sure….the ending will be sad probably.

    I tried Death Bee Comes Her and could not get into it at all sadly. Some cozies are like that for me.

    enjoy the books!

    (And thanks for mentioning mine.)

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    1. Oh my gosh this comment. It reads like one of “those” comments we often talk about:

      “That book will probably be sad and I hated that one. Good luck on these books.”

      LOL!!

      I swear that’s not how I meant it to come out. I am sure they are all going to be good in their own ways!

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  18. RAIN CITY READS's avatar RAIN CITY READS

    The only one I’ve read from this list is Somewhere Beyond the Sea – but it was fantastic (definitely read The House in the Cerulean Sea first, though, if you haven’t already!). One of my favourite reads of last year. I am really interested in When Women Were Dragons and Raising Hare, which I’d never heard of but which I am now very excited to look out for! I’ll be combing my library for both! I hope you enjoy these when you get to them. Happy reading!

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  27. Dear Erin
    We live at the sea, and we love books about the sea. We surely will have a look at ‘Of Salt and Shore’.
    Dina read ‘Raising Hare’ and she is full of praise for this book.
    Thanks a lot for your little reviews
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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