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July 29, 2025

A Bookish Time Capsule: July 2025

83 (more!) backlist book recommendations

Hello there! Happy Tuesday!

It’s time for … July’s Bookish Time Capsule!

For the fourth month now, I am sharing books that I read and loved that month in past years, going all the way back to 2015. This serves you with more backlist book recommendations to request from the library or find at used bookshops, and gives me a chance to mine my reading archives for those gems I want to savor again. Win - win!

July, like June, has proven to be NEXT LEVEL, with 83 BOOKS on this list. Wait, what? SUMMER READING, of course ~ so much reading time and ooodles of great releases each year!

I yet again created a PDF for you in addition to the exclusive Bookshop collection to help you with library holds and such. I hope you enjoy perusing the books that have brought me so much joy in July over the past 10 years!

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