August 2025 Reading Round Up

In August, I read 25 books and reviewed most of them. Literary judging duties are over, so I was able to do everything I could to stay on top of my reading and reviewing. And was able to read a few books that I hadn’t agreed to review. This was nice, and I am enjoying including a few non-review books in my reading to get through everything. As of writing this, I am well over my yearly goal for the year, and hitting my monthly average for getting through books. It sounds and looks like a lot, but it does mean that I am able to keep on top of things and not let them all pile up like they were a few months ago.

1. Drift by Pip Harry
2. Our History:  A House Divided by Clare Hallifax
3. Animals on Country: Let’s look after the animals with Uncle Kuu by Victor Steffensen and illustrated by Sandra Steffensen
4. Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
5. Bert’s Adventure in Bubbly Forest by Nicole Steyn
6. Song of a Thousand Seas by Zana Fraillon
7. Thunderhead by Sophie Beer
8. Promises and Other Lies by Sue Whiting
9. Flip by Rebecca Fraser
10. Rainbow Street by R.W.R McDonald, illustrated by Kelly Canby
11. Bin Chicken Lights Up the Night by Kate and Jol Temple, illustrated by Ronojoy Ghosh
12. Koala Fairies by Anna Pignataro
13. I Believe in You by Dani Colvin
14. 11 Ruby Road 1950 by Charlotte Barkla
15. Alice with a Why: Return to Wonderland by Anna James
16. This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska
17. How Big Is Love? By Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler, illustrated by Jade Goodwin
18. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
19. Evie P and Me by Petra James and illustrated by Andrew Joyner
20. Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
21. The Peach King by Inga Simpson, illustrated by Tannya Harricks
22. Naynay and the Mermaid by Tasma Walton, illustrated by Charmaine Ledden-Lewis
23. Seawitch (Hedgewitch #3) by Skye McKenna
24. Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar
25. Liam the Chid and the Kangaroo Warriors by Meredith Downes