Best Books of 2025

It's time for us to share our favorite books of 2025! Get your notebooks ready because WE! HAVE! RECS! 📚

Becca's Fave Books

The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland

Heart the Lover by Lily King

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune

Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley

Loved One by Aisha Muharrar

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden

The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood

Shoutout to 2 2026 books that are already faves: Little One by Olivia Muenter, So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder

Olivia's Fave Books

Heartwood and Seawife by Amity Gaige

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

Isola by Allegra Goodman

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Allison Espach

Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Tilt by Emma Patee

The Reformatory by Tanaraive Due

Not My Type by E. Jean Carroll

We Don't Talk About Carol by Kristen L. Berry

Greenwich by Kate Broad

All The Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

The Colony by Annika Norlin

Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler

Listener Voicemails

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Overdue by Stephanie Perkins

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Allison Espach

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley

The Wolf King by Lauren Palphreyman

So Thrilled For You by Holly Bourne

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Weekly Obsession

Becca - Sweans

Olivia - FP Coastline Beanie

What We Read This Week

Olivia - The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

Becca - Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino

January's Book Club Pick - Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino

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