Books I Loved in 2025

This is of course an abbreviated list as it seems impossible to name them all. As an obsessive reader, the kind that has a hundred books stacked by her bed at all times to rotate and shuffle like treasured rings in a jewelry box, I am prone to overbuying and reading books months sometimes years after they come out. Though of course, I order whatever screams READ ME in the moment and what was at the top of my pile will inevitably get bumped a notch. A year ago I also discovered a library book sale that goes on every day (!!!) where I continuously found not just books from the past that I had always wanted to read but somehow hadn’t, but also new releases that some kind generous soul kept donating for resale. Who are you and why aren’t we friends yet? Greyhound by Joanna Pocock (Catapult) is an incredible journey, not just of a personal narrative but the environmental apocalyptic hellscape that so much of the U.S. has become. It is, in my mind, vital reading. But so are all the books below.