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