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2025 To Be Read ❣️
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items The top books of 2025! This is my personal book club list 😎 I will update with rankings as the year progresses, and add even more of my reads!
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Book 1 of the Duology: I read this in 2024, but had to link since I recommended the second as my first read of 2025!
(Note these are also available on Kindle Unlimited if you have that service)
Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths|Paperback
This duology is FANTASTIC. It is historical fiction mixed with slow burn romance and mythical gods. This is book two, but I will also link the first book.
(Note they are also available on Kindle Unlimited if you already have this service)
Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies|Paperback
To Be Read
All of my friends have read this series already, so I MUST catch up. And this special edition is so cute and on sale right now!
Fourth Wing|Paperback
On so many folks top books of 2024 lists: The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.
What the River Knows: A Novel|Hardcover
Jason is not having a good day. Or maybe it’s the best day ever. In this dark and twisty science fiction thriller, reality may be blurred, but the takeaways never are. Wake yourself up in a surprisingly real and really surprising tale of missed chanc...
Dark Matter: A Novel|Paperback
When a woman is murdered in Blackdown, a quintessential small town, reporter Anna Andrews is reluctant to cover the case. Detective Jack Harper is suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation.
Someone isn...
His & Hers|Paperback
If epic, multigenerational sagas are what you reach for first, you need to read this story of love, loss and family, ambition and survival.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Paperback
This is a playful and smart exploration of all our very human foibles and the stories we tell ourselves as we try to make sense of the world. (Think of Amanda as a new best friend who will only tell you the truth.)
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality|Hardcover
Gifted thief Romeria steals jewels under a notorious New York City crime boss. But when an enigmatic woman secures her services at swordpoint, Romeria is wrenched from this world and transported into a realm of opposing thrones, warring elven societi...
A Fate of Wrath and Flame|Paperback
Gabriel Axton—infamous as the Prince of Gluttony, the self-proclaimed rake of rakes—has always lived for indulgence: in delicious food, in tantalizing women, and most of all, in the thrill of the hunt, where his love of danger can take over. But when...
Throne of Secrets (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia,...
Pretty Girls|Paperback
What begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in th...
The Familiar|Hardcover
Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wi...
House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City Series #3)
Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people-but at a tremendous cost. Locked in an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she ...
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass Series #7)|Paperback
Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.
So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly a...
The Seven Year Slip|Paperback
Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of ...
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care|Paperback
My current audiobook!
How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi