Every year, readers tune into the greatest book club on the internet and every year we round up the biggest hits, tear-jerkers, laugh-makers, and heart-throbbers to ensure that your TBR is wrapped up in a neat little bow. Settle in, dear reader, with a hot mug of whatever drink strikes your fancy, because we’re about to go over the very best of what 2025 has had to offer.
This year, the winner of the She Reads Best Book Club Book of 2025 Award is:
We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Carr
Kareela is pregnant and unsure if it is a miracle or a tragedy. She already feels stuck between two identities of being half-Black and half-white, neither of which seem to embrace her. Her mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada in the 1980’s with her husband and their first child during the Jamaican exodus and must now navigate the harsh reality of how Black men are viewed with scorn and distrust. When Evelyn’s son is murdered by the police, her mother-in-law comes to stay and help pick up the pieces of Evelyn’s broken heart, as well as help connect Kareela to her own Jamaican heritage. As truths about family are shared, lies and mysteries are uncovered, and Kareela must make peace with all of it to pave her own way forward.
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And don’t miss out on the rest of our favorite book club picks from 2025!
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
There are many ways people are choosing to celebrate the allied victory in Europe. In Bonhomie, Ohio, a celebratory moment of passion becomes an entangled mess for Cal and Margaret; one of whom is healing wounds from a war he could not fight in and the other is trying to hide a past which keeps finding its way back to her. Cal’s wife, Becky, is a seer gifted with the ability to see and communicate with the dead, a gift she uses to help people reconnect with lost loved ones. When Margaret receives a telegram which seems to bear the worst news regarding the fate of her husband, she finds herself cast adrift. As time marches on, Bonhomie carries on as well with the next generation, who are now uncovering the secrets those before them tried so hard to bury.
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The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso
Lisavet Levy has lived in the time space for a long, long time. Only accessible to those with special-made watches, the time space is a mysterious place built from the memories of those who have passed. Lisavet has taken it upon herself to curate and protect these memories after being abandoned in 1938 by her watchmaker father, only able to watch the world through memories left behind by others. When the American government appears within the timespace trying to destroy documents and revise history, Lisavet becomes even more focused on her mission until encountering American spy Ernest Duquesne, who becomes her connection back to the world she left behind. When Amelia Duquesne is deep in grief over her uncle Earnest, who had vanished without a trace, she is approached by a CIA agent asking her to follow in her uncle’s footsteps into the time space.
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To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
Steph Harper had always been running, but she thought she’d been running to something, at the very least. Her ambition had always been fed into academics and athletics, because eventually they had to get her to NASA, to the moon. Her mother had run with Steph and her sister to the Cherokee Nation when they were young, a place she hoped her family would finally belong. As she grew older, Steph’s ambition whittled away slowly at her relationship with the three most important women in her life. Her sister, Kayla, who had followed her own ambitions to do good into unexpected corners of the world, her college girlfriend Della, who is trying to reclaim her Indigenous identity after being removed from her Cherokee family, and her mother, Hannah, who might just be running away from her own secrets as well. As Steph’s dream seems to be closer within reach, she watches the relationships she holds most dear vanish behind her.
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I Leave It Up to You by Jinwoo Chong
Imagine the horror of waking up one day to your entire life vanishing into thin air. Manhattan apartment, gone. Entire advertising career, gone. Love of your life, gone. This is real life for Jack Jr., who has just woken up from a two-year coma. With nowhere left to go, he turns to the family he has not contacted in ten years. When his parents welcome him back with open arms, he is put to work in the family sushi restaurant he never wanted to be cursed into running. As he falls into the familiar footsteps of his old life, he finds new areas of fulfillment as well. The only question that remains is how long can he resist the urge to pave himself a path of independence and solitude once more?
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The Seven O’ Clock Club by Amelia Ireland
At the seven o’ clock group grief counseling session, the members feel as estranged from each other as they do from their lives before loss. Freya, Callum, Mischa, and Victoria have been told that they’ve been specifically selected for this group, but none can parse together exactly why. Once they discover the truth of why they’ve been brought together, nothing will ever be the same.
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The Antidote by Karen Russell
Uz, Nebraska has been fighting to exist despite the Great Depression knocking like a reaper at its doorstep, and when it is decimated by a historic dust storm on Black Sunday, all hope seems to be lost. The people living there, however, still have their own stories to tell. The “Prairie Witch” who holds people’s memories and secrets, a wheat farmer who bears the consequences of hoarding a blessing for his own, his niece who has been taken up by the witch as an apprentice, a photographer with a time-travelling camera, and a scarecrow all have their own role to play in Uz. As a parallel grows between the fate of Uz and our modern climate crisis, the fate of one town might portend our own future.
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Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley
Jane is a failed author with children who haven’t needed her in years, and a husband she’s fairly certain is cheating on her. So, she decides she is going to end her marriage at La Fin du Monde (The End of the World), both a powerful metaphor and very expensive French restaurant. Before she can drop the news, the restaurant is taken hostage by a group of activists who seem familiar. In fact, they and the words they’re spouting seem a little too familiar, almost like they’re reading directly from her failed novel. Given the power she holds, Jane must try to navigate the situation as the writer of their manifesto, as well as a hostage with her own life on the line. If she and Dan can survive this, could their marriage survive, too?
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The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny by Kiran Desai
Sonia and Sunny know two things to be true: One, they are incredibly drawn to each other. Two, they haven’t spoken to one another since their grandparents tried and failed to match-make them. Both have been brought back together after trying to escape their own curses. Sonia has returned to India after completing her studies in Vermont, searching for a way out of a curse set upon her by someone once close to her. Sunny is trying to escape two equally daunting forces, a domineering mother and a warring clan. Drawn together by their own will rather than that of others, the duo may just find what they were looking for, together.
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