9. Peter Fitzsimons “Fromelles & Pozieres: In The Trenches Of Hell” (@peterfitz1.bsky.social
10. Brene Brown “Dare To Lead”
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9. Peter Fitzsimons “Fromelles & Pozieres: In The Trenches Of Hell” (@peterfitz1.bsky.social
10. Brene Brown “Dare To Lead”
6. Fintan O’Toole “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History Of Ireland Since 1958” (@fotoole.bsky.social)
7. John Kampfner “In Search Of Berlin: The Story Of A Reinvented City” (@johnkampfner.bsky.social
8. John McKechnie “My Life In Crime”
Non-Fiction
1. Bri Lee “Eggshell Skull”
2. Rory Carroll “Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
3. Owen Eastwood “Belonging”
4. Julia Baird “Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything”
5. Frederick Forsyth “The Outsider”
6. Karin Altenberg “Breaking Light”
7. CJ Sansom “Dissolution”
8. Martin Cruz Smith “Independence Square”
9. Edward Rutherfurd “Dublin Foundation”
10. Carlos Ruiz Zafon “The Angel’s Game”
Fiction
1. Katherine Johnson “Paris Savages”
2. Colm Toibin “Long Island”
3. Donal Ryan “The Spinning Heart”
4. Annie Garthwaite “Cecily (@anniegarthwaite.bsky.social)
5. Robert Harris “V2 (@robertharrishome.Bsky.social)
6. Annie Garthwaite “Cecily”(@anniegarthwaite.bsky.social)
7. Owen Eastwood “Belonging” @oweneastwood
8. Robert Harris “V2” (@robertharrishome.Bsky.social)
9. Karin Altenberg “Breaking Light”
10. Julia Baird “Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything”
Top 10 Books Read in 2025
Overall
1. Bri Lee “Eggshell Skull”
2. Rory Carroll “Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown”
3. Katherine Johnson “Paris Savages”
4. Colm Toibin “Long Island”
5. Donal Ryan “The Spinning Heart”
5.Tracy Groot “The Maggie Bright”
4.Zygmunt Miloszewski “Entanglement”
3.Rupert Thompson “Secrecy”
2.Amitav Ghosh “The Glass Palace”
1.Stefan Herrmans “War And Turpentine”
& my top 10 fiction books read for 2024 were:
10.Simon Mawer “Prague Spring”
9.Aidan Chambers “Postcards From No Man’s Land”
8.Suzanne Anderson “Mrs Tuesday’s Departure”
7.Megan K Williams “Saving Rome”
6.Thomas Brussig “The Short End Of The Sonnenallee”
3.Bret Christian “Stalking Claremont”
2.Peter Schneider “Berlin Now: The City After The Wall”
1.Katja Hoyer “Beyond The Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990”
8.Serhii Plokhy “Nuclear Folly: A New History Of The Cuban Missile Crisis”
7.Laurence Rees “The Holocaust: A New History
6.Anna Funder “Stasiland”
5.Max Egremont “The Glass Wall: Lives On The Baltic Frontier”
4.Edith Eger “The Choice”
In my annual tradition - here are my top 10 books read in 2024 (coincidentally also my top 20 non-fiction reads:
10.Lydia Maksymwicz “The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry”
9.Monisha Rajesh “Around India In 80 Trains”