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In this video, we’re going through our entire 2025 reading year month by month, sharing our very favorite 5-star books and a few that totally missed the mark. Between the two of us, we read 200 books, and these are truly the best of the best that we couldn’t stop thinking about.

Timestamps 

00:00 Intro

01:43 December 2024

03:58 January 

09:09 February 

12:18 March

17:07 April 

22:15 May

27:18 June

32:16 July 

38:01 August 

43:44 September

47:25 October

51:03 November

Books Mentioned 

Zodiac Academy

Caroline Peckham and Suzanne Valenti 

Man’s Search for Meaning 

By Victor E. Frankl 

Wind and Truth 

By Brandon Sanderson 

The Fellowship of the Ring 

The Two Towers 

By J. R. R. Tolkien 

This is How you Loose the Time War 

by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Wheel of Time 

By Robert Jordan 

Dinner for Vampires 

By Bethany Joy Lenz 

What the River Knows

Where the Library Hides

by Isabel Ibañez

Six of Crows

Crooked Kingdom 

By Leigh Bardugo 

Pines

By Blake Crouch

The Shadow of What was Lost 

By James Islington 

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

First Time Caller

B.K. Borison 

Our Infinite Fates 

By Laura Steven 

The Wise Man’s Fear

by Patrick Rothfuss

Best Served Cold

by Joe Abercrombie

Intermezzo 

Sally Rooney 

Sunrise on the Reaping

By Suzanna Collins 

The Outsiders 

By S.E. Heaton 

Sense and Sensibility 

By Jane Austen 

Enders Game

By Orson Scott Card 

Fires of Vengeance 

Even Winter

Of Empire of Dust 

By Ryan Cahill 

Dungeon Crawler Carl

By Matt Dinniman

Morning Glory Milking Farm

by C.M. Nascosta

Onyx Storm

By Rebecca Yarros 

The Realm of the Elderlings

By Robin Hobb

Gifted and Talented

By Olivia Blake 

11/22/63 and Fairytale

Stephen King

Dune

Frank Herber 

The Knight and the Moth 

By Rachel Gillig 

Death of the Author 

by Nnedi Okorafor

Perks of Being a Wallflower

By Stephen Chbosky

The Gathering Storm

By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

Emma 

By Jane Austen

An Ember in the Ashes

By Sabaa Tahir 

Murderbot 

By Martha Wells

Summer in the City 

By Alex Aster 

The Ravenhood Series

By Kate Stewart 

Prophet Song

By Paul Lynch 

Death of the Nile

By Agatha Christie 

Writers and Lovers

By Lilly King

Atmosphere 

By Taylor Jenkins Reid

Finding Grace

By Loretta Rothschild 

The dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Pachinko 

By Min Jin Lee

From Blood and Ash

By by Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Dead Romantics

By Ashley Poston 

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

By V. E. Schwab 

Thursday Murder Club 

By Richard Osman

Silvercloak 

By L.K. Steven 

Wellness

By Nathan Hill 

The Hunting Party 

By Lucy Foley 

The Spellshop 

by Sarah Beth Durst

Chestnut Springs

Elsie Silver

Katabasis 

By R.F. Kuang

The Dutch House

By Ann Patchet 

The Blighted Stars

Megan E. O Keif 

Rebecca 

by Daphne du Maurier

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

Daughter of the Empire 

by Janny Wurts and Raymond E. Feist

Not in Love 

By Ali Hazelwood 

The Compound 

by Aisling Rawle

The Greenbone Saga

By Fonda Lee 

Stay True

By by Hua Hsu

The Dandelion Dynasty 

By Ken Liu 

The Will of the Many and The Strength of the Few 

By James Islington 

Frankenstein  

By Mary Shelley 

Great Big Beautiful Life

By Emily Henry 

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 

By Taylor Jenkins Reid 

Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel

Death at the Sign of the Rook

by Kate Atkinson

Nevernight

by Jay Kristoff

Hamnet 

By by Maggie O'Farrell

The Lost Queen

By Signe Pike

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

By Beth Brower

Piranesi 

by Susanna Clarke

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

By Dr. Joe Dispenza