The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

This Is Happiness

By Niall Williams ,

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Galina Vromen ❤️ loved this book because...

This book touches on so much that is important in life: growing up, enduring love in its many forms, the meaning of community. It depicts with incredible sensitivity and insight rural life in Ireland in a way that is both very specific and universal. The writing is gorgeous, one needs to imbibe this book slowly, it leaves a wonderful after-taste.

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    🥇 Writing 🥈 Immersion

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    ❤️ Loved it

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    🐕 Good, steady pace
This Is Happiness

By Niall Williams ,

Why should I read it?

18 authors picked This Is Happiness as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction From the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain 'Lyrical, tender and sumptuously perceptive' Sunday Times 'A love letter to the sleepy, unhurried and delightfully odd Ireland that is all but gone' Irish Independent After dropping out of the seminary, seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe finds himself back in Faha, a small Irish parish where nothing ever changes, including the ever-falling rain. But one morning the rain stops and news reaches the parish - the electricity is finally arriving. With it…

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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Songs for the Brokenhearted

By Ayelet Tsabari ,

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Galina Vromen ❤️ loved this book because...

This book beautifully delves into the themes of grief, love, daughter-mother relations and national identity against the background of the immigration of Jews from Arab countries to Israel in the 1950s and the integration/or lack thereof of their children in Israeli society. The writing is wonderful, the characters flawed by relatable, the plot has enough tension to keep the reader engaged. A wonderful book.

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    🥇 Writing 🥈 Emotions

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    ❤️ Loved it

  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace
Songs for the Brokenhearted

By Ayelet Tsabari ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Songs for the Brokenhearted as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother's secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter—the debut novel of an award-winning literary voice.

“A gorgeous, gripping novel filled with unforgettable characters.”—Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD'S JJ GREENBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better life. In an overcrowded immigrant camp in Rosh Ha'ayin, Yaqub, a shy young man, happens upon Saida, a beautiful girl singing by the river.…

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My 3rd favorite read in 2025

On Call

By Anthony Fauci ,

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Galina Vromen ❤️ loved this book because...

I found this autography of Anthony Fauci, an this ethnically Italian New Yorker who made good to become a leading figure in public health in America, fascinating. He talks about his life with an appealing blend of earnestness and humor, a bit of self-deprecation and a lot of compassion for his fellow human beings. I learned a lot about how public health developed under the seven presidents whom he worked with, and a lot about the development of medicine to cope with AIDS and other infectious diseases. A very engaging book.

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    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Teach

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    👍 Liked it

  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace
On Call

By Anthony Fauci ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

#1 New York Times Bestseller

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents

“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story...Gripping.”—The Washington Post

“One of the most consequential and most prominent [careers] in American medicine in the past fifty years.”—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker

Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous – and most revered – doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of…

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Los Alamos, 1943. Nuclear scientists and their families face the toll of keeping secrets from the world and each other in this gripping, historical wartime novel sure to attract readers of Kate Quinn and Rhys Bowen.

When Robert Oppenheimer gathers a group of scientists at the clandestine desert outpost of Los Alamos to create the world’s first nuclear weapon, their families move there as well with no explanation other than to “Stand by. Make do. And above all, don’t ask questions.”

Christine Sharp, forced to abandon her art restoration business in New York to support her husband’s career, struggles to reinvent herself.

She meets and forges an unlikely friendship with Gertie, the precocious teenage daughter of German-Jewish refugee and prominent physicist Kurt Koppel. Gertie enlists Christine to help her capture the heart of Jimmy, a shy soldier, and to deal with parents haunted by their past.

Kurt, anguished by what the Nazis have done to his family and bent on defeating them, carries burdens he longs to share but cannot confide in his wife ― leading him to find comfort elsewhere.

In this immersive novel of suppressed yearning, irrepressible love and wracking guilt, the lives of fictional characters intertwine with real-life figures. Like Oppenheimer and his team, they must contend with the moral questions and aftermath of creating the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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