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My 2025 Reading Wrapped
28 items
By
Olivia Emerick
The list of books I read in 2025 arranged by genre!
Sections
8
Fantasy
Contemporary Romance
Historical Fiction
Dystopian
Mythology
Poetry
Fantasy
My FAVORITE read of 2025 featuring a captivating rivals to lovers storyline and beautiful writing!
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
A great follow up to Divine Rivals
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
So much better than Iron Flame and really immersed me in the world
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
A cozy fantasy standalone & another favorite read of 2025!
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
A great ya fantasy standalone featuring star crossed lovers & a deadly environment
The Poison Season by Mara Rutherford
Contemporary Romance
One of my top three Emily Henry books!
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Hooked from start to finish!!
The Long Game by Elena Armas
A great adult romance featuring Stanford student athletes!
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
Historical Fiction
A gothic mystery romance set in Edinburgh, Scotland, what's not to love?
Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
A great sequel!
Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
One of my favorite reads of 2025! I can't recommend this book enough
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Dystopian
Suzanne Collins can do no wrong
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Mythology
My favorite retelling I read this year and honestly one of my favorite greek retellings ever!
Elektra by Jennifer Saint
Poetry
There is a reason this won a Pulitzer! So amazing!
New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe
A collection exploring the color blue! How it looks and sparks emotion through the lens of suffering and the limitations of vision and love
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
God I love Sappho
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
The best translation & some of my favorite sonnets
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
One of my favorite poetry collections ever
As I Walked Out One Evening by W.H. Auden
Louise Glück you never disappoint
The Seven Ages by Louise Glück
Such an original collection & I can't get enough of the combination of poetry & mythology
Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems by Maria Zoccola
An unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a coming-of-age story set in the present.
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Play
My favorite play I read this year! The epitome of fall in love again and again
Constellations by Nick Payne
A really important one woman play. I love the law element in this!
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Nonfiction
The most helpful book on writing poetry
The Poet's Companion by Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux
Immensely helped me with my poetry
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Helped me understand & write prose poetry!
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem by Jeremy Noel-Tod
Meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness through the lens of domestic spaces
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
This was required reading for a college class so I was amazed that I liked this so much!
Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors by William B. Taylor
