2025 TBR

Here is a tentative and wildly aspirational list of books I’d love to read in 2025. I haven’t counted them, but I already know there’s no way I’ll get to them all (and there will be many others I end up reading that aren’t currently on this list). That’s okay. They’re (almost) all books I already own, so any progress I make will be good progress.

Once a title has been read, I will make it bold.
I will also add links if I end up reviewing them.

(some titles might even be in the wrong general categories. Sometimes it’s hard to tell without having read them, and I’m not looking to do too much research at this point. Feel free to point them out if you catch any)

Follow my reading journey on Goodreads and Storygraph.

Love Stories TBR

Romance

Make Believe TBR

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

  • Katabasis | R.F. Kuang
  • Babel | R.F. Kuang
  • The Wood at Midwinter | Susanna Clarke
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke *
  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Becky Chambers
  • A Prayer for the Crown-Shy | Becky Chambers
  • The Will of the Many | James Islington
  • Jade City | Fonda Lee
  • 11/22/63 | Stephen King
  • Beautiful Demons | Sarra Cannon
  • Anji Kills A King | Evan Leikam
  • Shadow of Night | Deborah Harkness
  • The Book of Life | Deborah Harkness
  • Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros *
  • Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
  • Onyx Storm | Rebecca Yarros
  • Rebel Witch | Kristen Ciccarelli
  • When Stars Burn Out | Anna Vera *
  • Tress of the Emerald Sea | Brandon Sanderson
  • Wind & Truth | Brandon Sanderson
  • Our Infinite Fates | Laura Steven
  • Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo
  • Crooked Kingdom | Leigh Bardugo
  • Red Rising | Pierce Brown
  • The Grace of Kings | Ken Liu
  • The Way | Cary Groner
  • Awake in the Floating City | Susanna Kwan
  • Armageddon Summer | Yolen/Coville *
  • This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
  • The Ministry of Time | Kaliane Bradley
  • The Book of Lost Hours | Hayley Gelfuso
  • My Dear Illusion | Sarah Ready
  • Legends & Lattes | Travis Baldree
  • Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree
  • What the River Knows | Isabel Ibanez *
  • Where the Library Hides | Isabel Ibanez
  • One Dark Window | Rachel Gillig
  • Two Twisted Crowns | Rachel Gillig
  • A Promise of Fire | Amanda Bouchet *
  • The Bone Orchard | Sara A. Mueller
  • The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
  • Powerless | Lauren Roberts (DNF)
Human Studies TBR

Literary/General Fiction

  • Beartown | Fredrik Backman *
  • Us Against Them | Fredrik Backman
  • The Winners | Fredrik Backman
  • Here One Moment | Liane Moriarty
  • Apples Never Fall | Liane Moriarty *
  • My Friends | Fredrik Backman
  • Britt-Marie Was Here | Fredrik Backman
  • The Answer is No | Fredrik Backman
  • Conversations with Friends | Sally Rooney
  • Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy
  • Once There Were Wolves | Charlotte McConaghy
  • Migrations | Charlotte McConaghy *
  • Same As It Ever Was | Claire Lombardo
  • Burn | Peter Heller
  • Atmosphere | Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Carrie Soto is Back | Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • The Accidental Favorite | Fran Littlewood
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt
  • All the Perfect Days | Michael Thompson
  • Less | Andrew Sean Green
  • How to Stop Time | Matt Haig
  • The Days I Loved You Most | Amy Neff
  • The Plot | Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • The Poet’s House | Jean Thompson
  • Sandwich | Catherine Newman
  • Happiness Falls | Angie Kim
  • One Italian Summer | Rebecca Serle
  • Friends with Secrets | Christine Gunderson
  • The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus | Emma Knight
  • The Rumor | Elin Hilderbrand
  • The Perfect Couple | Elin Hilderbrand
  • The Castaways | Elin Hilderbrand
  • The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise | Dan Gemeinhart
  • Sunflowers | Sheramy Bundrick
  • Golden Girl | Elin Hilderbrand
  • Swan Song | Elin Hilderbrand
  • The Overstory | Richard Powers
  • The Paris Novel | Ruth Reichl
  • The Wedding People | Alison Espach
  • Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes
  • North Woods | Daniel Mason
  • Pineapple Street | Jenny Jackson
  • Margo’s Got Money Troubles | Rufi Thorpe
  • Bear | Julia Phillips
  • Buckeye | Patrick Ryan
  • Whale Fall | Elizabeth O’Connor
  • Bitter Sweet | Hattie Williams
  • The Seven O’Clock Club | Amelia Ireland
  • A Carnival of Atrocities | Natalia Garcia Freire
  • The Correspondent | Virginia Evans
  • Tilda Is Visible | Jane Tara
  • Mona Acts Out | Mischa Berlinski
  • Eight Hundred Grapes | Laura Dave *
  • When We Grow Up | Angelica Baker
  • What It’s Like In Words | Eliza Moss
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggers
  • Fall on Your Knees | Ann-Marie Macdonald
  • We, the Drowned | Carsten Jensen
  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Karen Joy Fowler
  • The Cider House Rules | John Irving
  • Galore | Michael Crummey *
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving
  • We All Want Impossible Things | Catherine Newman
  • Green Dot | Madeleine Gray
  • The Safekeep | Yael Van Der Wouden
  • Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame | Olivia Ford
Cautionary Tales TBR

Mystery/Thriller

Into The Past TBR

Historical Fiction

Classics TBR

Classics

  • Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte *
  • A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway *
  • The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
  • The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas *
  • The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf
  • Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf
  • Middlemarch | George Eliot *
Self-Improvement TBR

Non-Fiction

  • Hidden Potential | Adam Grant
  • Think Like A Monk | Jay Shetty
  • How to Take Smart Notes | Sonke Ahrens
  • The Untethered Soul | Michael A. Singer
  • Building A Second Brain | Tiago Forte
  • The Gifts of Imperfection | Brene Brown
  • The Source | Tara Swart
  • The Daily Stoic | Ryan Holiday
  • The Wager | David Grann
  • Good Energy | Casey & Calley Means
  • Uncommon Measure | Natalie Hodges
Self Study TBR

Writing Craft Books

  • The Daily Pressfield | Stephen Pressfield
  • Structuring Your Novel | K.M. Weiland
  • Creating Character Arcs | K.M. Weiland
  • Next Level Plot Structure | K.M. Weiland
  • Wired for Story | Lisa Cron
  • Story Genius | Lisa Cron
  • 7 Figure Fiction | T. Taylor
  • Refuse to Be Done | Matt Bell *
  • Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott
  • On Writing | Stephen King
  • Reading Like A Writer | Francine Prose
  • The War of Art | Stephen Pressfield
  • The Anatomy of Story | John Truby
  • Plot & Structure | James Scott Bell
  • Scene & Structure | James Scott Bell
  • Writing the Breakout Novel | Maass
  • The Emotional Craft of Fiction | Maass
  • The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know | Shawn Coyne
  • Write Your Novel From The Middle | James Scott Bell

That’s A Wrap!

What titles do we have in common on our TBRs?
Let me know what I should read next!