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Short books to reach your 2025 reading goal
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items Are you trying to catch up on your 2025 reading goal? It's already September and I am at least a book or two behind. Here's a few books that are quick, easy, and short!
This is NOT your typical celebrity memoir and I mean that in the best way. McConaughey is philosophical, weird, and surprisingly deep. It's part life story, part philosophy book, with random poems and journal entries thrown in. His whole "greenlights...
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Alex Stern is probably one of the most realistic protagonists I've ever read - flawed, sarcastic, and dealing with real trauma. Dark academia but make it actually dark and scary. The ghost stuff genuinely creeped me out and the critique of Yale's eli...
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
This dystopian thriller is BRUTAL and I mean that in the best way. It's a speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid's Tale about girls banished to survive a year in the wilderness because society believes they have dangerous magic that needs t...
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Beautiful story speaking of the magic of Hawaii. Interesting, fun, and quick read.
The Invisible Wild by Nikki Van De Car
This book is blisteringly funny and filled with sharp insight about a 20-year-old single mom trying to make ends meet. When Margo's wrestling-star father-in-law moves in to help with the baby, things get complicated fast. It's raunchy, funny, and unf...
Margo's Got Money Troublesby Rufi Thorpe
The nod to Thelma and Louise is right on the nose. Thrilling and fun. Quick read for anyone who's looking to finish that 2025 reading list
Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch
A gripping thriller about Joan, a NASA scientist in the 1980s working on a space mission while her personal life falls apart. Reid expertly weaves together workplace drama, family secrets, and the high-stakes world of space exploration. Joan is a com...
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A unique epistolary novel told entirely through the items left behind after an affair is discovered - emails, receipts, notes, photos. It's a quick read that packs an emotional punch as you piece together what happened between David and Carla through...
evidence of the affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
As a huge Hunger Games fan, I was nervous about this prequel. But Collins delivered! Getting Haymitch's backstory was brutal and heartbreaking in all the right ways. It adds so much depth to his character from the original series and the 50th Games w...
Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)|Hardcover
I devoured this in one sitting. Evelyn Hugo is iconic, complex, and unapologetic. The mystery of why she chose this random journalist to tell her story kept me guessing, and the reveal absolutely wrecked me. It's glamorous Old Hollywood but also a he...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Such a fun book! All about friendship and finding your independence. Short read, you'll get through it quickly. It's a newer release, so you could one of the first to recommend!
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Ok, I’m going to be one of those people, but I read this book before it was cool. It was totally my favorite book as a kid! I wanted (want) to be like Belly so bad! Living at a beach house during the summer with cutest boys and nothing but sand in my...
The Summer I Turned Pretty #1 by Jenny Han
365 pages: Great book club book! It’s short and sweet and you want to read it quickly, it’s that good
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid