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Books I've Read In 2025
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items just a romance girlie reading all the romances - a wrap-up of all the books I've read in 2025!
Sections
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🩷 romance
📖 non fiction
🕵️ mystery
🩷 romance
It was so enjoyable to be pulled back into Dana's world of Seattle, filled with fun queer characters, lots of swoon, and plenty of heart. I absolutely adored Mack and Charlie's story in the first book, and diving into Remi and Maya's story was just a...
In Walked Trouble by Dana Hawkins
Be still my beating heart, Stefan Dalca you are so FIIINE. Elsie really just makes the leading men of her series better and better with each book - the Harding brothers? Perfection. Stefan Dalca? Absolute perfection! Seriously, I don't blame Mira for...
The Front Runner by Elsie Silver
Dana caps off a fabulous queer romp in Seattle with a delightful and heartwarming story, filled with witty banter, undeniable chemistry, and two more leading ladies that you can't help but fall in love with as they fall in love with each other!
So Not My Type by Dana Hawkins
Melissa is a raved-about sapphic romance author that I've been meaning to read for the longest time, and this first foray into her work is enough to see why everyone recommends her when talking about sweet and swoony sapphic romances! She filled this...
Strawberry Summer by Melissa Brayden
What a way to round-out this series! Nadia was an absolute firecracker in the previous book, and the tiny snippet we see of her and Griffin, through Mira's eyes, was enough for me to know that this was going to be a book that I'd absolutely love! I'm...
A False Start by Elsie Silver
I've said it before and I'll say it a million times more - Elsie Silver gets better and better with each release, which I didn't think was possible because she was perfection from the first book! It's genuinely getting SO hard to choose a favourite l...
Wild Love by Elsie Silver
Elle has knocked it out of the park once again! I never thought I'd be a pregnancy trope romance girlie, but after reading a few over the past twelve months I can safely say I'm a sucker for the trope. And Elle wrote such a beautiful story for both I...
Tangled Desires by Elle Mariah
Wild Eyes was a 'read this in a day' kind of book - it started with a "it's midnight, I'll just read the first couple of chapters to get a vibe for the characters" to reading half the book before falling asleep at 3am, and then plowing through the re...
Wild Eyes by Elsie Silver
Well this was just all the warm and fuzzies wrapped up in a sweet awakening/coming out story! Emily and Kim's story in the first book was super enjoyable, but Trish and Kennedy really took things to the next level, and they are definitely my favourit...
Turning Back by Katia Rose
As if I wasn't still obsessed with Twister and Twisters, this has brought me right back to having Glen Powell living in my head rent free… Kayla really threw some of my fave tropes together - age gap, professor/student, and forced proximity - and thr...
Whirlwind by Kayla Grosse
I saw the title and cover, and that was all it took to send this book straight to the top of my TBR when it came out! I literally didn't read the synopsis until I had started the book and needed to get my head around who all these characters are. Adr...
Nanny in the Middle by Adrian J Smith
I cannot believe we've wrapped up our time in Meadowlark and the world of Rebel Blue! Lyla went from strength-to-strength with this series, and Cam and Dusty's second-chance romance was the perfect way to close-out this fabulous series. I've been cou...
Wild and Wrangled by Lyla Sage
Elsie Silver can literally do no wrong! I don't know how she can continually write these beautiful and swoony Canadian small town romances with heroines we want to be besties with and heroes we want to have sweep us off our feet. I was totally prepar...
Wild Side by Elsie Silver
Fully embracing my yeehaw era because I'm a sucker for a swoony cowboy, and Angelia certainly delivered on that front with this small town debut (Kristy Marie writing under a penname to differentiate from her other romance work). There's the moody co...
Lost in the Reins by Angelia Faye
Oh my lawd, Jessica Peterson you've got me wanting to buy a one-way ticket to Hartsville, Texas and Lucky River Ranch! These Rivers cowboys are swoony af and by the end of the first chapter I knew this would be a damn good read - and boy was I right!...
Cash by Jessica Peterson
Once again Stella has taken the intricacies of Aussie small town life, from the nosey neighbours and finger-in-every-pie volunteers, to the weathered farmers and young adults who return home, and wrapped them up in another fabulous read. As someone b...
A Home Among the Snow Gums by Stella Quinn
Friends-to-lovers is always one of my favourite tropes and Jessica served up such a sweet and swoony one with Wyatt and Sally! The little teasers we got of their connection in Cash had me SO excited to dive into their story, and I was not disappointe...
Wyatt by Jessica Peterson
The moment I saw that this book was about a single pregnancy where the MMC isn't the father but instantly jumps into that role, I knew I couldn't waste time on the previous four books before this one! I needed to experience Sam and Evie's story, rega...
Samuel by Tilly H Colson
Second chance romance can sometimes be hit or miss - maybe we don't get to see a lot of their original relationship, or the reason for their initial breakup isn't explored much, or we don't get to feel how emotional their reconnection is. If somethin...
Change of Hart by Bailey Hannah
I'm already an absolute sucker for a single parent romance - the adorable kid, the parent who wants love but isn't necessarily looking for it because their priority is their child, the love interest who adores their kid just as much as the parent, an...
Sawyer by Jessica Peterson
Emma Hart, how I've missed you! While I'm glad she took a step back from writing instead of forcing out stories she wasn't happy with, I am SO happy to have a fresh Emma Hart book to devour, especially an Aristoverse romance! There is just something ...
Rough Around the Hedges by Emma Hart
Having never read anything by Sienna before, I didn't really know what to expect, but could easily see why she is such a beloved sapphic romance author, and I'll definitely be diving into more of her work in the future. She really captured everything...
The Farmer Has a Wife by Sienna Waters
And just like that, we've reached the end of our time at Three Rivers Campground! Katia rounded out this trilogy and these sisters with such a beautiful second-chance romance, that not only looked how Clover and Neavh overcame their past relationship...
Chasing Stars by Katia Rose
A newbie written by Lana Ferguson? SIGN ME UP! I don't care what the cover looks like, or what the synopsis says - I'm going to read ANYTHING that Lana writes, sight unseen! And she once again lived up to expectations with Danica and Ezra! She contin...
Overruled by Lana Ferguson
Okay I see why this has been hyped across my socials for so long! I wish I'd picked this up twelve months ago, but better late than never! Amy has such a great writing style, and I was immediately sucked into the world of the Fletcher family and life...
Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws
Give me a one-way ticket to Bluebell, Montana, and Silver Saddle Ranch! Ann has such brilliant writing style and I was immediately whisked away to the world of Bluebell and the lives of Jensen, Briar and the rest of this cast of characters! If you're...
Wrangled Love by Ann Einerson
Bull riders? Second chance? Bi-awakening? One bed? The boyfriends are boyfriends? DP? The swooning? The yearning? SIGN. ME. UP! Jessa ticked ALL the boxes and delivered on every single one of them in the best way possible! Having never read anything ...
Reckless Hearts by J. Wilder
Cowboys, age gap, forbidden?? YES YES YES!! This one has been rattling around my TBR since it was released, and after seeing some people recommending it recently that it was an absolute MUST when it came to SPICY cowboy reads, I finally gave it a go ...
Chasing the Wild by Elliott Rose
Storm and Briar have some seriously sizzling chemistry, from their efforts at trying to resist giving into the taboo temptation, to finally exploring the raw attraction and lust between them. The spice in the first book was all the hot pepper emojis,...
Braving the Storm by Elliott Rose
We were introduced to Fred waaaay back in Love Language FOUR YEARS and EIGHT BOOKS AGO, so this story has been a long time coming! Throughout most, if not all, of the Aristoverse novels, Emma has given us little updates on Fred's life, and by this po...
From Best Friend to Bride by Emma Hart
I've been hanging out for Dana's next release (absolutely LOVED the Single in Seattle duology), and this beauty has been worth the wait! With everything to love about Dana's writing, all wrapped up in the beauty of small town Minnesota. I absolutely ...
The Ex Effect by Dana Hawkins
This has been sitting on my TBR for what feels like forever and after seeing it pop up in my recommended for the millionth time, I thought it was about time to dive in and I was not disappointed! Sara served up a delicious introduction to the world o...
Praise by Sara Cate
📖 non fiction
While I've been familiar with Sandi and her work, I've really only followed her through her guest appearances on Time Team (she was brought in as a guest host during two of their Time Team Live episodes) and as guest-turned-host on QI. So I didn't re...
Between the Stops: Life from Number 12 Bus
Through the lens of popular and much-loved American sitcoms, Matt Baume converges queer history and television history to examine the impact that queer characters have had on audiences and society since the 1960s. And not just the impact of these cha...
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Queering American Culture
The world of teen television has had a massive impact on pop culture, and as each writing team has attempted to tackle the genre and break the mould, they've left in their wake iconic characters, storylines and moments that have defined a generation....
Freaks, Gleeks & Dawson's Creek by Glassman
🕵️ mystery
Having just come off a The Golden Girls and The Golden Palace binge (and now working my way through Empty Nest), it seemed like the perfect time to dive into this beauty! While I'm not necessarily a cozy mystery girlie, I am a Golden Girls girlie so ...
Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstrom Courage