What I’m Reading in 2025
Okay, here’s the hugest confession of maybe my entire life. Compare this list to my reading list of 2024 and you’ll be appalled. It’s not that I didn’t read this year - I swear I did. I just didn’t read the things on the list. I overcommitted to reviews and I also immersed myself in business books, none of which were planned. I know, it just gets worse as this story goes on. Not only did I not complete my reading list, I didn’t even follow the plan. If you’ve been around awhile, you know that I always follow the plan. Except, I guess, when I don’t. Anyway, here’s what I’m looking forward to reading next year!
January
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ✅
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker ✅
Writers and Lovers by Lily King ✅
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (I’ve been reading this for two years….)
Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles ✅
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
February
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas ✅
Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks ✅
Backhanded Compliments by Katie Chandler✅
The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda✅
A Burning: A Novel by Meghan Majumdar
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware✅
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
March
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston ✅
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott ✅
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan ✅
The Complete Novels of Dawn Powell
When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica ✅
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
April
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Comeback by Ella Berman
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
May
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Here For It by R. Eric Thomas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Bucket List by Georgia Clark
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
June
Atomic Love by Jennie Fields
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
July
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Jetsetter’s by Amanda Eyre Ward
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
August
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
White Ivy by Susie Yang
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Exist West by Mohsin Hamid
The Meanest Thing to Say, The Treasure Hunt, and the Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella
September
Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane
The Henna Artist by Aka Joshi
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Paradise by Toni Morrison
October
Group by Christie Tate
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Cujo by Stephen King
And After the Fire by Lauren Better
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
November
White Ivy by Susie Yang
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Woman in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
December
In a Holiday by Christina Lauren
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
Send for Me by Lauren Fox
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
I’m really looking forward to digging into these (and more!) next year. What’s on your 2025 TBR?
