It’s December already?!?! The year feels both so short and so long – but December is my favourite month (or it will be once I finish the assignments that are currently draining my soul) and it’s a great month to tie some ribbons (figuratively) on some of the books I’ve started and not finished so far this year.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at my December TBR!
Books to Finish
My goal for December is essentially threefold:
- Read my priority new release for 2025 Quarter 4
- Finally read the book that my friends and I were doing a read along for back in August/September that I never read so we can start a new one in January
- Finish off all the books that I’m a good chunk of the way through (not including the ones I’ve deliberately decided to pause for now and resume later).
Which leaves us with a (hopefully doable) eight books on my TBR for this month!
- The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow – My 2025 Q4 priority release!
- The Master and Margarita by Michael Bulgakov – My source of shame (sorry to those friends of mine that have been waiting so long for me to read it…) and fear.
- Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Sabrina Knight and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler – The shortest of the many books I’ve started for my dissertation and some that I think would be useful to read before starting in-depth research.
Funnily enough, the other four books I want to finish in December are all by Korean authors (although I’m not reading them all in Korean) – and I didn’t even do it on purpose!
- 이상한 나라의 스물셋 [The Strange World of 23] – Since I turn 24 this month, I should probably finish this one before then, don’t you think? I’ve still got about 4-5 stories left and I will actually read it this month. Promise. Really.
- 불편한 편의점 2 (The Second Chance Convenience Store #2) by 김호연 Kim Hoyeon – I’m already about 85% through this as an audiobook so it should be an easy one to finish and tick off the list!
- 魔幻時刻 [Magical Moments] by Jedit – I’m 65% through this one too, so I should be able to finish it. That would also bring me to my goal of reading two books in Chinese this year.
- The Legend of Lady Byeoksa: Die Perlen des Todes [The Pearls of Death] by Esther Park – This is one that I got about 20% through and then paused back in summer but I think I can probably finish it this month and then also reach my goal of reading two books in German (this would be number three but I DNF’d one). This is the German translation of a Korean book and the English translation is coming out next year, so it would be nice to do a review in advance of that as well.
Books to progress
I don’t have a specific list of books to progress this month since my main goal for the end of the year is to finish a lot of the books that I’m part way through – I’d like to start the new year with as clean a slate as possible.
That being said, there are some books that I’m working my way through bit by bit and pausing in between use (mostly books that I’m referring to for my research) and I’m sure I’ll make some progress in at least a couple of these this month since I have three assignments due.
What books are you planning on reading this month?
Keira x
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