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From Y's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why Y loves this book

This had me hooked from the first page and didn't let me go (I read it in 2 days). The plot moved along at exactly the right pace for me, so that I never got bored or wanted to stop reading; quite a feat for this length of book. I also never giggled so much through a book, there were so many funny lines, without it ever feeling like a comedy or taking away from the, at the heart, very emotional story. In fact, the last ~15 or so percent I shed tears several times 🙈.

By Holly Smale ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked I Know How This Ends as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

If you could see your future, how would you live now?

'Utterly joyous' Prima

'Irresistibly charming, heartbreakingly hopeful, and downright hilarious' Catherine Walsh

'Fabulously original' The Sun

Margot Wayward is in manically gleeful self-destruct mode. Following the implosion of a ten-year relationship, she's wilfully derailing her successful career, joyfully taking down men on dating apps, and living in total chaos.

Until one day, when Margot has a vision of herself with a man she's never met before. She doesn't believe in fate. But when Margot meets single-dad Henry, the vision comes true: exactly as she'd foreseen it.

As her future…


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The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

Book cover of The Persians

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From Y's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why Y loves this book

At the beginning of the novel, I wasn't sure these characters were people I could relate to, super rich and each with faults, some more severe than others, but soon I cared about each one of these women and didn't want to put the book down. I have never annotated a book, but for this one I really mourned having a library copy and not being able to write in it; some observations and thoughts on the page were just perfect. Elizabeth story also really got me, such a complicated character, but her arc broke my heart, stomped around on it for a bit, and then duct-taped it back together.

(There are a lot of mentions of body image and thin culture, proceed with caution if you're struggling with it.)

By Sanam Mahloudji ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Persians as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Shortlisted for The Women's Prize • Named a Most Anticipated Book by Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly, The BBC, Daily Mail (London), and more

A darkly funny, life-affirming “joy of a debut novel” (David Mitchell) that follows five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down.

The women of the Valiat family are in crisis. Elizabeth, the regal matriarch, remained in Tehran despite the revolution and only has Niaz, her Islamic law–breaking granddaughter for company. In America, Elizabeth's daughters, the flamboyantly high-flying Shirin and frustrated housewife Seema, are wondering if their new…


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