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2025 - Books I've Read (So Far)
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items Physical books. digital books, audiobooks, all of the books. List in progress. Updated 16 April 2025.
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fiction from my TBR list
nonfiction from my TBR list
fiction from my TBR list
I read a lot of fiction when I'm extra stressed out.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair / A FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage frie...
Idlewild
**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** **NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A New York Times Bestseller - Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize - Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction One of th...
Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school. Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, en...
Dark Rooms: A Novel
"A superior, creeping psychological thriller taut with tension and drama." --The Seattle Times "Easily the creepiest setting for a suspense novel since the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's The Shining." --BookPage From the critically acclaimed author...
The Clinic
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Everything I want in a thriller. Sexy, shocking, and tense with an ending I never saw coming. Jeneva Rose is the queen of twists."--Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author The highly anticipated new ...
You Shouldn't Have Come Here
From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that thi...
One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston's beloved #1 New York Times bestselling romantic comedy, now in paperback with an all new Shara-POV chapter! Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four...
I Kissed Shara Wheeler: A Novel
Soon to be a Prime Video TV series starring Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel A Washington Post and Sun Sentinel Best Book of the Year “Cunning. . . . Get ready to be led down the garden path to a conclusion so morally ambiguous a professional ethicis...
The Better Sister: A Novel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People is a whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island. "This roiling beach community satire serves up wi...
Bad Summer People: A Novel
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komac...
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance--similar to bingo. However, in Lotería instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images. There are 54 cards in the Lotería game, and for this short story collection you will...
Lotería: Stories
A painful unsolved mystery resurfaces after decades of confusion, sending one woman and her daughters on a journey of redemption in this emotional story about intergenerational trauma, family, and the beauty of Puerto Rico for fans of Nina LaCour, Xo...
After the Ocean
There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give the...
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 “A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy… This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard....
Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
The Conjuring meets Sadie in this queer ghost story, when seventeen-year-old podcaster Dare finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against an evil spirit. Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts. But as the host of Attachments, her brand-new paranorm...
The Girls Are Never Gone
Anna Quindlen’s trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and One True Thing. ...
After Annie: A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this “deeply nuanced and compelling” (Vogue) novel, from the accl...
Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel
As recommended by Good Housekeeping, Country Living, and more! "The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks is a charming romcom about finding your own path and never being scared to break the rules. It's also an uplifting celebration of the power of books t...
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A powder keg of dark secrets and mind-bending puzzles, this must-read thriller is “addictively suspenseful” (The Washington Post) and “full of atmospheric thrills” (Los Angeles Times)—from the New York Times bestselling autho...
Darkly
"Big Brother meets Clue in this utterly original and incredibly tense locked-room mystery." --May Cobb, author of A Likeable Woman A mysterious high-stakes game proves life-threatening in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling autho...
Everyone Is Watching: A Locked-Room Thriller
A New York Times' best thriller of the year! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war. Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until...
What Happened to Nina?: A Novel
A struggling author in Los Angeles discovers the dark side of fame when a stalker begins reenacting violent events from her thriller in this electrifying and twisty novel. When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a writ...
The Close-Up
Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night. Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, b...
The Night Guest
The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school. Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, en...
Dark Rooms: A Novel
Coral is the first person to discover the body of her brother, Jay, in the wake of his suicide. There’s no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone...
Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel
nonfiction from my TBR list
I can feel myself close to entering a nonfiction era.
Joan Didion is revealed at last in this “vivid, engrossing” (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography “that reads like a propulsive novel” (Oprah Daily) revealing the mutual attractions—and antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary tit...
Didion and Babitz
From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen in this #1 New York Times bestseller. Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but or...
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard