TTT Tweak: Books I was reading the last week of January for the past ten years

Top Ten Tuesday---I'm on my own this week with this tweak:
Books I was reading the last week of January for the past ten years

This is a fun activity for me -- to look back on what I was reading during approximately the same date for the past ten years.  In one case, I wrote the review almost a year after I read the book because I attended an author event about the book at that time.

January 25, 2025 --Currently reading:
Playground by Richard Powers
On the list of the top 50 books of 2024.

2024
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
A book club selection and a favorite book read in 2024.

2023
I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems by Kate Baer
Erasure poems. Very clever.

2022
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
Nonfiction. Very helpful.

2021
The Radium Girls: The Scary But True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow In the Dark by Kate Moore
I read this YA version as a Cybils judge and then a few months later the adult version for book club. This version was better.

2020
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of the "Children's Ship" by Deborah Heiligman
Another YA/MG nonfiction book read as a Cybils judge.

2019
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Another book club selection. Club members got to choose which of the author's books they wanted to read and I picked this one, set in Alaska.

2018
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks : A Librarian's Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence
As a newly retired librarian I appreciated this book.

2017
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
The third book on this list which was a book club selection. 

2016
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
I had just learned this book won a Printz Honor for the year 2016.

2015
The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone by Adele Griffin
A very creative YA novel made to seem like it was true.

And one more submission, just because I got off on my counting and I mentioned this book up top --

2014 (but reviewed in 2015)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine American and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
A spectacular nonfiction book. Not to be missed if you like read narrative nonfiction.

A few of these books, like A Covenant of Water and The Boys in the Boat are actually personal favorites. Most of the others are just books I happened to be reading in January. I was shocked to see that six of the titles were nonfiction but two of those were related to my work as a Cybils judge in the MG/YA Nonfiction category, which helps explain why January has been nonfiction heavy. Read my reviews if you are interested in learning more about what I thought of any of the books. 

-Anne