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Books I read in 2025
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items These are all the books I’ve read this year with my rating out of five stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I will add to it as I read more! I am very conservative with my stars so if I gave them a good rating they are really good books! I do my ratings as follows:
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⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is lesbian bdsm smut contemporary. It was good. A quick read. To me it was fairly vanilla. Didn’t really excite me.
Guarded Desires by Anna Stone, Paperback
⭐️⭐️: Another very quick read. I know this book is very popular but I didn’t like it. It didn’t really have anything that blew me away. The writing felt lazy and predictable.
If I Stay by Gayle Forman, Paperback
⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book was good. I felt like you could tell there was a ghost writer, which I guess is expected with every celebrity memoir. I do feel good about supporting Shari after everything her and her siblings have gone through, but it also felt vio...
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke, ...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: this is the first book in a series. I reread this book this year before reading the second one that came out. This is an incredible book. So thoughtful and inspiring. Beautifully written. It’s also so fun to read. It brought out my inner ...
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, Paperback
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This is the second book in the series and I believe tj is writing a third. I loved this book. I read the first book in the series and gave it 5 stars. Tj is a fantastic writer. I only gave this one four stars because it felt like he was goi...
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune, Hardcover
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book is really good. I highly recommend it. Was super fun to read I couldn’t put it down. The only thing was that it isn’t as thought provoking as I like for my five star reads. But it was a great book to escape into.
The Wedding People: A Novel by Alison Espach, Hardcover
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I LOVED this book! It’s not the type of book I would normally give five stars to but I was so into it. I really loved reading it. Young lesbian love that brought me to a different time. I felt like I was there with them.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (National Book Award Winner)
⭐️⭐️⭐️ sorority hazing gone bad. This book was interesting and I kept reading to solve the mystery. It was good but not crazy good.
They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The best way to describe this book is lgbt BDSM hunger games. I’m slightly embarrassed I liked it so much. This book gave fan fic vibes. Lots of typos and some plot holes, but I was so into it. Very kinky. Super hot 🥵
Hide n' Seek by Eden Emory and Ashley Pines
⭐️⭐️⭐️: This is the only book I’ve started and not finished this year but I thought I would still include it. I only got half way through it so take my review with a grain of salt. It’s not that it’s wasn’t good. I just couldn’t get into it. I don’t ...
Alice Isn't Dead: A Novel by Joseph Fink, Paperback
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This is the best book I’ve read in years. I love all of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books but this one is the best imo. I want to say more but I don’t want to spoil it cause I went into it with no knowledge on what it was about and it made it a...
Atmosphere: A Love Story
⭐️⭐️⭐️: It was good. I wasn’t expecting domestic violence. I wish I would have had a trigger warning but I guess that’s my fault for going into books blind. That being said it was good, but I felt the characters were unrealistic and it was sad to rea...
The Housemaid
⭐️⭐️⭐️: This book was good but I didn’t love it. It had relatable characters and they were realistic and believable. I am a therapist so it was good to see an accurate portrayal of mental illness in everyday life. Tho I will say this book was sad and...
Normal People by Sally Rooney, Paperback
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I loved this book. A lot of people criticized that it was predictable and in some ways it was but in a satisfying way. It was thoughtful and beautiful. I’ll be thinking about it for a long time
The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso, Hardcover
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the second book in the series after hide and seek. It was a super quick read for me. Again, I couldn’t put it down. I just really really liked it!!!
Rat Race: A Dark Dystopian Romance by Eden Emory, Ashley Pines, Paperback
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This is an amazing book!!! I could not put it down. The world Schwab created was so fun. There could be so much lore with this story. I wish there was more
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue eBook