My Top 25 Reads of 2025

Happy New Year, book lovers! 2026 is here, and I, for one, am happy to leave 2025 behind. I read 174 books in 2025, and here are my top 25 books in no particular order. This post contains affiliate links.

• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab

• My Friends by Fredrik Backman

• One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune

• The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn

• Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone

• Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez

• The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

• Left of Forever by Tarah Dewitt

• The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

• The Curse that Binds by Laura Thalassa

• Rose in Chains by Julie Soto

• Everyone is Lying to You Jo Piazza

• Arcana Academy by Elise Kova

• Problematic Summer Romance Ali Hazelwood

• The Heartbreak Hotel by Ellen O'Clover

• The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole

• Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross

• Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

• Dating After the End of the World by Jeneva Rose

• What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

• The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller

• Good Spirits by BK Borison

• Red City by Marie Lu

• The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow