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Best Books in 2025

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I spent reading 40+ books last year, and these are the best few I would highly recommend if you're looking for moody, deep, retrospective literature fictions.
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Best Books in 2025 I Want to Read Again Over and Over

These are the best books I read in 2025

 
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Hands down the most captivating book I read in 2025
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, Paperback
 
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Obsession? Desire? Trauma? Very charming and heartfelt book
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
 
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Blueprint for Ian McEwan's Atonement
The Go-Between - L. P. Hartley
 
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freaky and interesting book
Reflections In A Golden Eye - Carson McCullers
 
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I reread this before the movie came out and it was the best decision ever. To know the actual background of the creature and Frankenstein sets things very interesting.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
 
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It's very eerie and isolated. About dreams and what-ifs
Seascraper - Benjamin Wood
 
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
 
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existentialist final BOSS
Stoner - John Williams
 
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I LOVE this book with all my heart but spent days after reading broken
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
 
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The length threw me off a bit but this still makes the list.
East of Eden - John Steinbeck