Monthly Wrap Up | December 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

December 2025 Wrap Up

Happy 2026, everyone!!

I had a busy, but good, December and I feel very happy and hopeful for the new year. I do feel like I’m constantly playing catch-up with my blog posts and book reviews though, and I am truly sorry for neglecting my blog and all of you who have been very patient with me.

My intention is to catch up with all my reviews for December, and I really want to participate in the Top Ten Tuesdays and Sunday Posts more regularly this year. I also really love the End of Year Book Surveys and booktag memes, and I’ll try to do them throughout this rest of this month.

I’m making new year resolutions for better time management and I’m going to do better in 2026!

My December 2025 TBR Intentions

I was trying to take it easy in December so I only had four books on my TBR intentions, and I cannot believe that I completely forgot to read one of them! I forgot I had it on my list! Oh well, I’ll read it this year. 😅

1. Emma by Jane Austen
2. Stoner by John Williams
3. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
4. My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Books Read in December 2025

1. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
2. The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
3. The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
4. The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal
5. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
6. Emma by Jane Austen
7. Stoner by John Williams
8. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
9. Starter Villain by John Scalzi
10. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

Notable Books This Month

The Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal were really good! I didn’t expect them to be alternate history because the title made me think sci-fi, not history, but it made a whole lot of sense and I really like the stories that she told with each of the individual books.

Stoner was also another standout, and it’s interesting that it is because the MC is such an ordinary, unremarkable character, who’s just wanting to live a simple life. I love that we follow him throughout his life and see him through his ups and downs; the challenges that he faces, the good times he enjoys, his occasional bursts of brilliance, his passion about certain issues and then his passivity on other issues. It’s just such great writing.

January 2026 TBR Intentions

Other than BOTM obligations for January, I’m also wanting to get to some of the books on my TBR that I didn’t manage to get to last year.

1. Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
2. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
3. The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese
4. The Glass Château by Stephen P. Kiernan
5. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
6. The Will of the Many by James Islington
7. The Strength of the Few by James Islington

How was your month in December? How was your year in 2025? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful 2026 with lots of great books!