Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2025
Feature and Contest
Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2025
In our special year-end feature, we asked you to share both your favorite book that you read with your book group and your favorite book that you read outside your group in 2025.
The results are in! Below are the top 10 titles in each category.
One reader will win six fabulous book group titles releasing this year: DAUGHTER OF EGYPT by Marie Benedict, KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN by Sadeqa Johnson, KIN by Tayari Jones, SKYLARK by Paula McLain, STRANGERS: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden, and WHERE THE WILDFLOWERS GROW by Terah Shelton Harris.
The winner will be announced soon!
Top 10 Books Read with Your Group:
- THE WOMEN by Kristin Hannah
- THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans
- BROKEN COUNTRY by Clare Leslie Hall
- THEO OF GOLDEN by Allen Levi
- THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN by Marjan Kamali
- THE FROZEN RIVER by Ariel Lawhon
- MY FRIENDS by Fredrik Backman
- JAMES by Percival Everett
- THE NAMES by Florence Knapp
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THE BRIAR CLUB by Kate Quinn
Top 10 Books Read Outside Your Group:
- THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans
- THEO OF GOLDEN by Allen Levi
- BROKEN COUNTRY by Clare Leslie Hall
- MY FRIENDS by Fredrik Backman
- THE RIVER IS WAITING by Wally Lamb
- WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy
- BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan
- ATMOSPHERE: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- HEART THE LOVER by Lily King
- CULPABILITY by Bruce Holsinger
