10 books i want to read in 2025 📗🌹✨ fantasy, romance, literary fiction, classics, and more!

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hi friends! today, we have a list of the top 10 books i want to read in 2025 📗🌹✨ i thought it was the perfect time to give you guys some book recommendations that already reside on my bookshelves and that are on my TBR for the coming year! we have some fantasy, romance, literary fiction, and classic books in this video. enjoy!

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when browsing for books to read, i always look for book reviews. that is why i bring you a top 10 book recommendations video that quickly turned into a very chatty video about the books i want to read this month, a 2025 tbr, and me losing my mind over some of the new book releases of 2024. booktube and booktok have buzzed about some of these books… but will i enjoy them? i hope you guys enjoy this one and come out with more books to add to your TBR and some good book recommendations for 2024!

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intermezzo by sally rooney
one for my enemy by olivie blake
rain of shadows and endings by melissa k. roerich
remarkably bright creatures by shelby van pelt
assassin's apprentice by robin hobb
blood over bright haven by m.l. wang
foul lady fortune by chloe gong
better than fiction by alexa martin
rebecca by daphne du maurier
one piece by eiichiro oda

[nicolesweeting]

This year, I'm lowering my goodreads goal, and focusing on the many chunky fantasy books on my shelves. Words of Radiance, Empire of Silence, Will of the Many, to name a few.

[annawilliams]

Blood Over Bright Haven was BRILLIANT, and I can’t wait to see your reaction. Remarkably Bright Creatures was so heartwarming.

[izaaaaaarah]

I am actually trying to get back to fantasy reading next year so most of the books I want to read are like yourself the first in a series including: Jade City, The City of Brass, Sword of Kaigen, She Who Became The Sun & Assassins Apprentice.

[danii_saur]

I literally just finished Blood over Bright Haven. Lovedddd it. Read Sword of Kaigen earlier this year and honestly think about that book so much. ML Wang is brilliant at making you feel the characters pain

[nazrye]

Also sidenote i love how in the background we can see the books mel has talked about in the video and the pile just slowly growing. It just scratches something in my brain haha 😅

[danamonsees-cns]

Can’t wait to read Blood Over Bright Haven!! Absolutely loved the sword of kaigen

[temiomotayo]

I hope you love intermezzo!! I am focusing on diversifying my reading next year with new genres (sci fi, epic fantasy, etc) and new to me authors!!

[theapenning]

Next year I will actually be focussing more on moodreading instead of tbr's. This year I made seasonal tbr's, but it made me get into reading slumps a few times so I hope to prevent that next year.

[josephinehoerth]

omg Rebecca is one of my all time favorite books. that copy is gorgeous!

[katherynherron]

I want to start the Farseer series this year too!
Rebecca had my jaw drop and Remarkably Bright Creatures was so sweet. Happy reading! 🌹🌹🌹

[nicolednk]

🌹🌹🌹 OK you put me over the edge, I'm going to have to read Blood over Bright Haven soon

[paigediaz]

ONE PIECE YES omg I'm obsessed I hope you love it! People usually recommend getting the the end of the "East Blue" arc to decide if you like it. The Netflix live-action adaptation also gets to this point so that might be a fun motivation!

[WandaBurnside]

I love watching your vlog because we seem to love the same types of books. Keep up the good work.

[michellemanzanillo]

The audiobook of Remarkably Bright Creatures was great. I loved the voice actor for Marcellus.

[RyleeJ]

Rebecca is also on my yearly tbr for 2025! I think the book sounds so interesting & this book was actually the inspiration for the song "tolerate it" by taylor swift. Your copy is absolutely stunning & I can't wait to hear your thoughts about it so I can compare my thoughts.

[hayleykerrean]

In regards to One Piece, I am so happy to hear that the live action is what made you want to start it! I haven't seen it, but I hear nothing but good things for the live action.

I've been watching One Piece off and on for about 4 years, I was so intimidated about the length but it has quickly become one of my absolute favourite anime / manga!! You're in for a treat, welcome to the club! 😊❤

[ipek]

i love these end-of-year videos! my top books to read in 2025 would probably be:
- new releases like "a witch's guide to magical innkeeping" by sangu mandanna, "my friends" by fredrik backman, "katabasis" by r.f. kuang (all by some of my favorite authors) + "heir" by sabaa tahir bc i didn't have the chance to get to it this year
- some books i've been meaning to get to for the longest time & i want 2025 to finally be the year! "jade city" by fonda lee, "the starless sea" by erin morgenstern, "station eleven" by emily st. john mandel
- and i want to read more from these two authors: haruki murakami and toni morrison!
- i also want 2025 to be my brandon sanderson year :) i've only read 2 books by him so far ("elantris" and "the final empire") and i'm so pumped to delve even deeper into the cosmere, it seems like a lot of fun!

[meredithk]

I've been making really extensive tbrs, and found that I wasn't enjoying it and got into book slumps quite frequently. So, this year, I'm mixing it up! I have started putting the top 5 books I want to read on a wheel and spinning it; the book it lands on is the book I'll read! It allows me to mood read while keeping a TBR element since I'm a big planner.
In 2025, I'm graduating from college, so I'm hoping to have more time to read books that have been on my tbr for years:
- The Song of Achilles
- What the River Knows
- One Dark Window
- The Silmarillion (I read Lord of the Rings for the first time this year and absolutely loved it!)
I also wanna do a few re-reads in 2025:
- Harry Potter (I haven't done a re-read since 2020-2021, it's calling to me)
- Endgame Trilogy by James Frey

[kiute.c]

Blood over Bright Haven is my new absolute favorite book! I hope you love it too. The protagonist’s name is pronounced sigh-oh-nah 😊

[drewsambitiousreading]

Mel u should read foul heart huntsman first on this list! I loved that one and want to read book 2 so badly but also don’t want to say goodbye to that series! Happy reading.
Ps. 2 of these I have on my list as well