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It is the end of another year and time to do Kelsey's top 10 books of 2025.

Before we get into it, what do you think was your most red genre of the year?

I can tell you what was my most red genre.

It was historical fiction.

Not all World War II, but historical fiction.

I could have guessed that.

Yeah. And then like literary fiction, thrillers, contemporary fiction, those were the big ones. Just a plug for the Storygraph app if you haven't used it. It is by far better than Goodreads. Like, blows it out of the water. Breaks down all your books and everything. You have to log it. It looks cool. of the month wrap up. Still doing it into the year.

So I'm excited to see that.

And it shows compared to the last month, like how many more pages you read, how many more books. I like it. I would need that app to a log one book this year. I don't know anything I need an app for that, though. What one book did you read? I read Mark Hoppice's biography. There you go.

And I read it like a week.

There you go.

So that is my book of the year only because I only read one book. You have some Christmas break reading. You said you were going to read Project Hail Mary. I have to read Project Hell Mary before the movie comes out. I got like three months. So I feel like Christmas breaks by the best time. All right. We're going to get into your list now. Are you going 10 to 1? They're in no ranked order. No ranked order. All right. First book, what do you got? All right. Again, no particular order. Book 1 is The Names by Florence Knapp. I could talk about this book endlessly for hours. It made me feel things. It made me think. So the premise is how our name sometimes

defines our life. And so the idea is this woman has a baby. And there are three different names she could

have given this child in three different scenarios. And so each chapter goes through that name of the child in different time period. So it

follows that child throughout their whole life if they were named these three things. I can't

give any more away about why. Like I know that sounds maybe like not the best concept. I love that

concept. That's crazy to think about just us as humans, how much just our name has affected maybe opportunities we've been given, who we fall in love with.

Well, and what's cool and what affects it so much is in the different scenarios why the kid was named to that.

So, highly recommend that one. Phenomenal. I've told everyone to read it.

I don't know why you think that's an undersell.

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