The best books of 2025

This list is part of the best books of 2025.

Join 1,210 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Correspondent

❤️ loved this book because...

Wonderful view of a woman looking back on her life with all its triumphs and regrets.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Virginia Evans ,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked The Correspondent as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

❤️ loved this book because...

Wonderful remembrance of 1950s-1960s US, through the eyes of a historian.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Drew Gilpin Faust ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Necessary Trouble as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.

To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions―not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives.

A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Memorial Days

❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Geraldine Brooks ,

Why should I read it?

4 authors picked Memorial Days as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.

Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz - just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy - collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.

After spending their early years together in conflict zones…


Book cover of The Correspondent
Book cover of Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Book cover of Memorial Days

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