Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Summer Reading Wrap Up: Quick Reviews of the Best Books I Read this Summer & My Reading Stats

My top 9 books I read in July, August and September 2025. I'm only telling you about the good books, because who needs to hear about the bad ones?

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Books mentioned (all bookshop.org links are affiliate links)
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781847088420
Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9780008604219
Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing by Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781788702942
Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781800816763
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez trans. by Megan Macdonald uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781803511245
Dangerous Fictions by Lyta Gold uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781593767709
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781838954956
Endling by Maria Reva uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9780349012711
Everybody's Protest Novel by James Baldwin uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9780807016947

0:00 - Intro
00:32 - Stats
1:48 - 3.5 Stars
7:45 - 3.75 Stars
13:53 - 4 Stars
18:10 - 5 Stars

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