The Books We Loved

So long, 2025--these were our favs!

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The girls round out the year by sharing their personal favorite reads of 2025. See below for the booklist. 

Olivia's recs:

  • Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid

  • Heart the Lover, Lily King 

  • The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai

  • All the Way to the River, Elizabeth Gilbert

  • This American Woman, Zarna Garg

  • Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor 

  • Back After This, Linda Holmes

  • Swept Away, Beth O’Leary

    • Manda's recs:

    • No More Chairs, Gill

    • Everyday Bean (Tiny Bean's Big Adventures, Book #1), Graegin

    • Frank’s Red Hat, Avery

    • Max in the Land of Spies (book 1); Max in the Land of Lies (book 2), Gidwitz

    • We Were Liars (book 1), Family of Liars (book 2), We Fell Apart (book 3), E. Lockhart

    • The Only One Left, Sager

    • I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: one woman’s obsessive search for the Golden State Killer, McNamara

    • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (book 1), The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse, and the Storm (book 2), Charlie Mackesy
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