Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger Horn - First Quarter 2025 Recommended Reads

Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn join me to recommend their favorites reads of the first quarter of 2025.

Pamela's selections:

January:

The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall

More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova

Too Soon by Betty Shamiah

The Favorites by Layne Fargo

February:

A Long Time Gone by Joshua Moehling

Tilda Is Visible by Jane Tara

Isola by Allegra Goodman

March:

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry

The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian

April:

A Lesser Light by Peter Geye

Mary's selections:

January:

Let's Call Her Barbie by Renee Rosen

The Three Lives of Cate Cay by Kate Fagan

The Lotus Shoes by Jane Yang

Penitence by Kristin Koval

February:

Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

A Forty Year Kiss by Nick Butler

People of Means by Nancy Johnson

The Snow Birds by Christina Clancy

The Lamb by Lucy Rose

March:

Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen

The Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko and Liz Parker

Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Want to know which new titles are publishing in January - May of 2025? Check out our third Literary Lookbook which contains a comprehensive but not exhaustive list all in one place so you can plan ahead.

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Pamela Klinger-Horn

Event Coordinator - Valley Bookseller

Pamela Klinger-Horn has been a literary event planner since 2012. She has been on the Board of Directors of Rain Taxi Literary Review and the Excelsior Friends of the Library. Pamela has experience as a children’s Book Club facilitator at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School and the Excelsior Public Library. Pamela enjoys attending and promoting literary events throughout the Twin Cities and beyond, and has been nicknamed the “Local Literary Fairy Godmother.” She is currently the literary event coordinator at Valley Bookseller in Stillwater, MN; and the creator and host of the monthly literary program Literature Lovers' Night Out™️ .

Mary OMalley

Mary OMalley is the Free-Range Virtual Bookseller at Large for Skylark Bookshop; Author Liaison and Scheduling Producer for A Mighty Blaze; Mary is also a writer, grandmother, and chicken-wrangler. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and menagerie of pets.