‘Tis the season for reflecting on a well-read year.
In 2025, we celebrated new romantasy novels at midnight release parties and traveled to see our favorite authors talk about breathing life into the page. We read the nail-biting new installments of beloved series and gasped over dishy celebrity memoirs. We revisited books when the adaptations hit screens. We named our dogs and cats after our favorite characters. We found friends and community through reading.
So, after all that reading, which books are we still thinking about now? The truth is, the best book of the year is deeply personal to every reader. Still, some titles transcended genre to unite us in spectacular storytelling.
We’ve narrowed down our favorite reads of 2025 to a list that has a little something for everyone, from sweeping family sagas to touching memoirs, gory horror novels to romances that guarantee a happily ever after.
What it’s about: A young woman grows up in the shadow of a generational family curse of lovelessness and the belief that she’s the reincarnation of her aunt.
