The fiction book club I lead at One More Page Books kicks off the new year by talking about our favorite reads of the previous year. We call it a book club potluck: instead of food we bring book recommendations! This aren’t book club picks, but books we’ve read outside of book club that we’ve really enjoyed. Additionally, they don’t have to have been published recently, simply books we’ve read in the last year. This is my favorite meeting of the year; we always come up with quite the eclectic list of books!
Here are our favorite reads of 2025, in no particular order! It’s quite a long list! Click on the title to learn more, and to order your own copy!
- Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
- The Women by Kristen Hannah
- The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
- Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
- The Guncle/The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
- Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
- Discovery of Witches trilogy
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta
- Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan
- The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- Someday Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli
- A Woman is No Man Etaf Rum
- The Talk Darrin Bell
- Real Americans by Rachel Khong
- The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
- Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein
- Collective Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Fragile Threads of Power V.E.Schwab
- The Cliffs J. Courtney Sullivan
- I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
- A Love Like the Sun by Riss M. Nielsen
- All the Colors of the Dark by Christ Whitaker
The Wishing Game Meg Shaffer - Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- James by Percival Everett
- Sandwich by Catherine Newman
One Response to Book Club Favorites of 2024