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Everything I read in 2025
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items This is a list of everything I've read in 2025. I'm an avid reader, so this is a good mix of many different genres!
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance year...
Tom Lake: A Novel
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to re...
The Wedding People: A Novel
An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis.
High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her lock...
Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel
Colin Jost's memoir. A funny one!
A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir
For the fans of Sister Wives, a great memoir
Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom
a must read for today's political climate
107 Days
an incredible memoir that journeys public health care through several decades
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healt...
Wellness: A novel
A bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not the Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and, ultimately, w...
Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel
a major tear jerker memoir about Joe Biden's journey through the presidency with his dying son
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later
My Friends: A Novel
an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story
gotta throw in a few professional development reads throughout the year!
Product Management in Practice: A Practical, Tactical Guide for Your First Day and Every Day After
Swept off her feet by the gentle charm of Lucas O'Connor, Leah's unexpected pregnancy changes the course of her carefree and nomadic existence. Over a decade and three children later, Leah is unraveling. She resents the world in which her artistic as...
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce tal...
Demon Copperhead: A Novel
Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immorta...
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Ever wonder why the “loud” people at work get noticed, rewarded, and promoted? Do you worry that you need to be loud to succeed at work, too?
Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons
an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
for my PM's
The Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right
love this series, a great thriller
The Housemaid's Secret
book 1
The Housemaid
From the co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name
By Any Other Name: A Novel
a great tool for managers
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More, and Change the Way You Lead Forever
another management book
Organizational Culture and Leadership
if you are 30+ this book is an absolute must. don't wait!!
The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmoth...
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel
A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
so viral in 2025, and worth the read
Onyx Storm (Wing and Claw Collection)
Told in alternating timelines, THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can’t bring ourselves to see coming.
The Things We Leave Unfinished
I read so many pages from this lady this year lol
Kingdom of Ash
love this series
Tower of Dawn