Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025.
Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025
Authors & Books
Ilona Andrews. I read Clean Sweep a few years ago and enjoyed it, but didn’t continue the series. In 2025, I tried to do the Edge/Innkeeper Readalong with Anne @ Books of My Heart. While I didn’t finish the Edge series, I listened all the Innkeeper books… and then plowed through the Hidden Legacy series as well. I am now well and truly hooked on Ilona Andrews.
Shannon Hale: The Goose Girl. I loved Hale’s Princess Academy when I read it years ago, and had read a few of her other titles, but for some reason I had never read her Books of Bayern series until last year. The Goose Girl is a beautifully written fairytale adaptation; I’m kicking myself that it took me so long to read it.
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass. What an amazing, perceptive, and thought-provoking book! The prose is lovely, and listening to the author read her own work made it even more moving.
Meg Shaffer: The Wishing Game. A delightful book; I’m looking forward to reading The Lost Story and her 2026 release, The Book Witch.
Rebecca Thorne: Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea. Loved it! I hope to read the other three books in 2026.
Olivia Waite: Murder By Memory. I can’t wait to read the second Dorothy Gentleman mystery!
Other Bookish Discoveries:
Hoopla. I have known about Hoopla for ages, but 2025 was the year I finally embraced it. I listened to 23 audiobooks on Hoopla last year: 12 first-time reads and 11 books I had read but not listened to before. That’s more audiobooks than I have ever read in a year—and it doesn’t even count several audiobooks I own or borrowed via Libby.
Katherine
I love Hoopla! I don’t use it as much because my library gutted what audiobooks they had available and got rid of most of the cozy mysteries which was mostly what I listened to. I discovered Ilona Andrews in 2025 too! I read the first in the Hidden Legacy series and am looking forward to reading the rest of the series this year.
Anne - Books of My Heart
Ilona Andrews is my absolute favorite! I have only used Hoopla for a couple years but really love it.
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Leslie @ Books Are The New Black
Ilona Andrews will be a new to me author this year. I have an ARC for their upcoming book and I’m so excited! Great discoveries.
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Anne@HeadFullofBooks
I loved the Goose Girl when I read it several years ago, too. I read the second book and didn’t love it so much, so I stopped and didn’t read on.
I’m late posting today but here is what I wrote: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/ttt-bookish-related-events-of-2025.html
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Rebecca @ Top 100 Books
Lovely list – I have The Book Witch on my TBR, too.
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Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Ilona Andrews’ books are so fun! I haven’t read even nearly all of them, but the Kate Daniels series made me a fan. I need to read more of her stuff, especially the new one that’s out this year.
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JoAnn @ Gulfside Musing
Hoopla is the best! I get so many books, especially audiobooks, there and have also watched a few documentaries and miniseries. Glad you gave it a try in 2025!
Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out
I’d completely forgotten about Hoopla til now and just logged in to browse so thank you for sharing your #TTT discoveries
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Lydia
The Goose Girl sounds cute.
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Marwah @ The Booklore Fairy
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea looks so good! I hope you discover many more amazing authors this year 😊.
If you’d like to visit, here’s my TTT: https://thebooklorefairyreads.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-discoveries-i-made-in-2025/
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
I’m also looking forward to the next Dorothy Gentleman mystery too! I really enjoyed the first one. And I’m hoping to read Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea soon. It looks really fun and cozy.
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Cheryl Malandrinos
Great list, Lark! I haven’t heard of Hoopla. Love the covers on the books you’ve shared. Can’t Spell Treason without Tea sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing and for visiting my blog last week.
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Danielle @ The Part Everyone Skips
Yay for Robin Wall Kimmerer! Looks like a fun year 🙂
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