Author, Author!
The Year 2025 in Review
Location, Location, Location
The Hostess with the Mostess Memory
Potpourri
100

Deanna Raybourn wrote this book which we read in 2025

What is Killers of a Certain Age?

100

This band's concert kiss-cam exposed an affair between a CEO and the company's chief people officer

Who is Coldplay?

100

When the Cranes Fly South takes place in this European country

Where is Sweden?

100

This member hosted when we read Girls Like Us and took us on a boat ride

Who is Mary Ann Jolly?

100

The Secret Life of Sunflowers is about this famous painter

Who is Vincent van Gogh?

200

Jenny Colgan wrote this book we read in 2025.

What is Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop?

200

The two numbers that went viral towards the end of the year, with teenagers frequently saying them

What is 6 & 7?

200

Our December book club selection takes in this European city

Where is Edinburgh?

200

She hosted Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop where visiting her house is as close to visiting The North Pole as you can get.

Who is Dianne Coggin?

200

This book tells the intertwined stories of three iconic singer-songwriters, focusing on their lives, careers, and impact as women who came of age in the 1960s and redefined popular music. Name the singer-songwriters.

Who is Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon?

300

The number of books we read in 2025 that were written by male authors 

What is Zero?

300

Following the death of Pope Francis, he was named the new leader of the Catholic church in May of 2025

(and I need a number)

Who is Pope Leo XIV?

300

The historical fiction novel, The Orphan Collector, takes place in this city during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

Where is Philadelphia?

300

Who hosted when we discussed the book The God of the Woods?

Who is Maria Watson?

300

Four female assassins in their sixties who are forced out of retirement by their own organization, which tries to kill them, leading them to turn their skills against their former employers. Name one of the assassins. 

Who is Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, or Natalie?

400

Sheila Weller wrote this veeerrrryyy long book club selection

What is Girls Like Us?

400

After a successful Eras Tour, Taylor Swift released this 12th studio album in 2025 named

What is The Life of a Showgirl?

400

This book takes place between worldly and otherworldly settings

What is aftertaste?

400

Who hosted when we discussed The Secret Life of Sunflowers?

Who is Sandy Owen

400

A young girl, Barbara, disappears from a summer camp, triggering a search that unearths secrets about her wealthy family and the surrounding community, especially since her brother vanished in the same area years before. Where was she eventually found?

What is a remote cabin on an island?

500

The author of Tell Me Everything

Who is Elizabeth Strout?

500

This AI actress who was revealed earlier this year prompted heavy backlash from the acting community

Who is Tilly Norwood?

500

Lawyer Bob Burgess defends a murder suspect in this state

Where is Maine?

500

Nobody hosted Aftertaste, but we did eat at this restaurant

What is Hair of the Dog?

500

The first time it happens, Konstantin "Kostya"Duhovny, a lonely boy at a Brooklyn pool, tasted his father's favorite dish though he's never had it. This "aftertaste" is both a miracle and a curse, a sensory haunting that ties him to the world of the dead and to the ache of longing for what's lost. What was this dish?

What is chicken livers with onions?

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