Casey and UyenThi’s Favorites for 2025

Our contributors will be teaming up over the next few weeks to tell each other about their favorite books of the year! Casey and UyenThi come together to discuss their top 5 reads of 2025. From memoirs, love stories, translated novels, and dark academia, these are the stories we’re reading in 2025 that we think need to be on everyone’s TBR.

Books and resources mentioned:

james Author: Percival Everett

The simple art of killing women by Patricia Mello

Feed the ghost by Tessa Hull
Hijab Butch Blues Author: Lamia H.

The gods have been waiting for a hundred years Author: Shubnum Khan

night eater by Marjorie Liu

death of author Author: Nidhi Okorafor

I never knew a man Jacqueline Harpman

Catabasis Author: RF Kuang

I’ll tell you when I get home: a memoir by Hala Alyan

Angelica and Prince Bear Author: Trung Le Nguyen

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yaros

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