In 2025 I read 47 novels, non-fiction books and plays. Here is a selection of some favourite books of the year. Clearly, it is a selection which spans literary classics, modern classics, contemporary fiction, young adult to romcoms and beach reads. In 2026 I hope to read a little more - the goal is always 52 books.
- Top Books of 2025:
- Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
- The Water Keeper by Charles Martin
- The Letter Keeper by Charles Martin
- The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
- Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
- Take A Chance On Me by Elizabeth Eulberg
- Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley
- Good Girl by Aria Aber
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff
- James by Percival Everett
- Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
- Babel by R.F. Kuang
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson
- Ask Not by Maureen Callahan
- A Love Letter to Whiskey by Kandi Steiner
- An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi