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.
Romance
- The Love Haters | Katherine Center
- One Golden Summer | Carley Fortune
- It’s A Love Story | Annabel Monaghan
- Summer Romance | Annabel Monaghan
- Same Time Next Summer | Annabel Monaghan
- First Time Caller | BK Borison
- The Favorites | Layne Fargo
- Wild Eyes | Elsie Silver
- Wild Side | Elsie Silver
- Say You’ll Remember Me | Abby Jimenez
- Great Big Beautiful Life | Emily Henry
- Left of Forever | Tarah Dewitt
- Where the Black Line Ends | Meagan Williams
- A Knight in Shining Armor | Jude Deveraux
- Beg, Borrow, or Steal | Sarah Adams
- Variation | Rebecca Yarros
- Done and Dusted | Lyla Sage
- 32 Days in May | Betty Corrello
- A Novel Love Story | Ashley Poston
- Summer Reading | Jenn McKinlay
- Love at First Book | Jenn McKinlay
- The Ex Vows | Jessica Joyce
- Not Another Love Song | Julie Soto
- Just for the Summer | Abby Jimenez
- The Seven Year Slip | Ashley Poston
- One Day | David Nicholls
- The Christmas You Found Me | Sarah Morgenthaler
- Pictures of You | Emma Grey
- Firefly Lane | Kristin Hannah
- Lights Out | Navessa Allen
- We All Live Here | Jojo Moyes
- Love and Other Paradoxes | Catriona Silvey
- Summer in a Bottle | Annie Rains
- All the Perfect Days | Michael Thompson
- Songs of Summer | Jane L. Rosen
- Friends to Lovers | Sally Blakely
- The Spirit of Love | Lauren Kate
- First Love, Second Draft | Becca Kinzer
- Battle of the Bookshops | Poppy Alexander
- The Love Fix | Jill Shalvis
- Swept Away | Beth O’Leary
- The Page Turner | Viola Shipman
- Something Wilder | Christina Lauren
- Tangled Up in You | Christina Lauren
- Any Trope But You | Victoria Lavine
- Promise Me Sunshine | Cara Bastone
- Spring Fling | Annie England Noblin
- Since We’re Here | Chrissy Hopewell
- Mistletoe Season | Sheila Roberts, Kathleen Fuller, Pepper Basham
- The Sullivan’s Island Supper Club | Susan M. Boyer
- The Rebound | Catherine Walsh
- Romantic Comedy | Curtis Sittenfeld
- Birding with Benefits | Sarah T. Dubb
- One True Love | Taylor Jenkins Reid
- People We Meet on Vacation | Emily Henry
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
- 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
- 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
- Legends & Lattes | Travis Baldree
- Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree
- Where the Library Hides | Isabel Ibanez
- Together We Burn | Isabel Ibanez
- One Dark Window | Rachel Gillig
- The Bone Orchard | Sara A. Mueller
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
- The Accidental Favorite | Fran Littlewood
- Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt
- 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 Rumor | Elin Hilderbrand
- The Perfect Couple | Elin Hilderbrand
- The Castaways | Elin Hilderbrand
- 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
- Next To Heaven | James Frey
- A Carnival of Atrocities | Natalia Garcia Freire
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | Jessica Guerrieri
- The Hounding | Xenobe Purvis
- The Correspondent | Virginia Evans
- Tilda Is Visible | Jane Tara
- Mona Acts Out | Mischa Berlinski
- Saltwater | Katy Hays
- 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
- All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr
- 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
- How to Age Disgracefully | Clare Pooley
- The Safekeep | Yael Van Der Wouden
- Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame | Olivia Ford
Mystery/Thriller
- The Disappearance of Vanessa Shaw | Sarra Cannon
- Famous Last Words | Gillian McAllister
- Flicker in the Dark | Stacy Willingham
- Someone Knows | Lisa Scottoline
- What Happened to the Bennetts | Lisa Scottoline
- We Solve Murders | Richard Osman
- Just Another Missing Person | Gillian McAllister
- The Night We Lost Him | Laura Dave
- The Dead Guy Next Door | Lucy Score
- Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun | Elle Cosimano *
- Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice | Elle Cosimano *
- Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave | Elle Cosimano
- All the Words We Know | Bruce Nash
- Parents Weekend | Alex Finlay
- Murder at Gulls Nest | Jess Kidd
- Closer Than You Know | Debra Webb
- The Matchmaker | Aisha Saeed
- Middletide | Sarah Crouch
- Death & Croissants | Ian Moore
- Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers | Jesse Q. Sutanto
Historical Fiction
- The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett
- Babylonia | Costanza Sasati
- Three Sisters Three Queens | Phillipa Gregory
- The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood *
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 *
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
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!