Books Read in 2025, alpha by author

Woods & Words: The Story of Poet Mary Oliver, Sara Holly Ackerman, illus. Naoko Stoop – nonfiction
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) , Rabih Alameddine – fiction
My Name is Emilia del Valle, Isabel Allende – fiction
Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders – fiction
Is This a Cry for Help? , Emily Austin – fiction
The Usual Desire to Kill, Camilla Barnes – fiction
A Sharp Endless Need, Marisa Crane – fiction
Cape Fever, Nadia Davids – fiction
Into the Bright Open, Cherie Dimaline – fiction
VenCo, Cherie Dimaline – fiction
The Gallagher Place, Julie Doar – fiction
The Wasp Trap, Mark Edwards – fiction
All the Wandering Light, Heather Fawcett – fictionEmber and the Ice Dragons, Heather Fawcett – fiction
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett – fiction
Even the Darkest Stars, Heather Fawcett – fiction
A Galaxy of Whales, Heather Fawcett – fiction
The Grace of Wild Things, Heather Fawcett – fiction
The Islands of Elsewhere, Heather Fawcett – fiction
The Language of Ghosts, Heather Fawcett – fiction
The School Between Winter and Fairyland, Heather Fawcett – fiction
Etiquette for Lovers and Killers, Anna Fitzgerald – fiction
Her One Regret, Donna Freitas – fiction
Friends and Liars, Kit Frick – fiction
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home, Stephen Starring Grant – nonfiction
Haven’t Killed in Years, Amy K. Green – fiction
Sister Creatures, Laura Venita Green – fiction
Open Wide, Jessica Gross – fiction
We Lie Here, Rachel Howzell Hall – fiction
The Wildelings, Lisa Harding – fiction
A Season on the Drink, Pat Harris – fiction
No Ordinary Bird, Artis Henderson – nonfiction
Girls With Long Shadows, Tennessee Hill – fiction
The Library of the Dead, T.L. Huchu – fiction
The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, T.L. Huchu – fiction
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, T.L. Huchu
The White Hot, Quiara Alegría Hudes – fiction
Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson – fiction
The Bones Beneath My Skin, TJ Klune – fiction
Clash of Steel, C. B. Lee – fiction
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, ed. Ada Limon – poetry
The Giver, Lois Lowry – fiction
Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire, Don Martin – fiction
North Woods, Daniel Mason – fiction
Breathe in, Bleed Out, Brian McAuley – fiction (no review)
Little One, Olivia Muenter – fiction
The Favor, Nora Murphy – fiction
The Grand Paloma Resort, Cleyvis Natera – fiction
Most Ardently, Gabe Cole Novoa – fiction
The Tiny Things Are Heavier, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo – fiction
Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O’Neill – fiction (no review)
The Case of the Missing Maid, Rob Osler – fiction
Witchcraft, Sole Otero, trans. Andrea Rosenberg – fiction
Harmattan Season, Tochi Onyebuchi – fiction
Hookers and Blow Save Christmas, Munty C. Pepin
Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk – fiction
The Midnight Bargain, C. L. Polk – fiction
three shorts, C. L. Polk – fiction
Yosemite Wildlife, Beth Pratt – nonfiction
To the Moon and Back, Eliana Ramage – fiction
Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West, Kelly Ramsey – nonfiction
I Am You, Victoria Redel – fiction
Warning Signs, Tracy Sierra – fiction
A Far-Flung Life, M.L. Stedman
Dandelion is Dead, Rosie Storey – fiction
The Bookshop Below, Georgia Summers – fiction
Blanket, Kara Thompson – nonfiction (no review)
Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe – fiction
The Lilac People, Milo Todd – fiction
Personal Stereo, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow – nonfiction
The El, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. – fiction
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig – fiction
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson – fiction
Mutual Interest, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith – fiction
Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies’ Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations, Cutter Wood – nonfiction
Sea Change, James Workman and Amanda Leland – nonfiction