Alli the Book Giraffe

Hello readers! Today I wanted to do a fun post about 25 books I really hope to get to in 2025. As you guys may have seen in my 2025 reading goals post, I want to read more diversely in 2025 because I really didn’t in 2024. As a result, most of these are diverse in some sort of way.

What books are you guys most excited to get to in 2025?

I actually have a TBR game in the works and this will be one of my prompts. But I’m also going to keep the list next to me when I do the game so I pick these books.

First up, we have Show ME a Sign, which is a book that takes place on Martha’s Vineyard, which at one point had a very large deaf population.

A Place at the Table is a middle grade, food book, following a Jewish and Pakistani girl who don’t really like each other, but slowly become friends through one of their mother’s cooking classes.

If I Had Your Face takes place in Korea and is about four different women. I know it’s a critique of their social climate from the perspective of different women, which I’m super intrigued by. I’ve been into kpop since 2019, so I know quite a lot about the political and social standards there.

The Luis Ortega Survival Club follows a group of people who were all assaulted by the same guy. I’ve loved this author before, so I’m excited to try this one AND I own the book.

The Rage of Dragons is a fantasy series that I’ve wanted to try since it came out, but wanted to wait for more books. Book three is scheduled to release in 2025, so it’s probably time to finally pick it up.

A Love Song For Ricki Wilde was one I wanted to get to in 2024, but didn’t get around to it. I know it’s romance and magical realism. I sometimes love and sometimes hate magical realism, so we will see what I think when I finally get to it.

Stephen Graham Jones is that author that I’ve almost read so many times and I finally want to try in 2025. This book is a slasher and I want to like that genre so much. I’ve read 4 or so slasher books and have only liked one of them.

I love slasher movies, so I want to like slasher books. And this is my next attempt at it.

Kennedy Ryan is a romance author that I’ve also wanted to try for a while. I wanted to read this one in 2025 but also didn’t get around to doing so.

Summer at Squee is a middle grade, summer camp book that I really think I’ll love.

The Passengers is the John Marrs book that I haven’t read in the world of The One, The Marriage Act, and The Family Experiment. It’s time that I finally get around to reading it.

I had to add in some classics to my list as I haven’t read them much in the past few years.

Madam Bovary is here because my favorite classics are French classics and Sleepy Hollow because I’ve just never read it before.

Beloved is another classic that I have on my physical shelves, so I thought I’d add it here.

I really hope to get to Chain Gang All Stars early in 2025 because I’m really excited for it.

This one is a dystopian novel where prisoners are made to fight to the death Gladiator style. I really think this one could be good and I’m in a scifi mood these days.

Belladonna is a book series that is super popular on Booktok and I’d like to try it, even though that doesn’t go well for me most of the time.

Jacqueline Woodson is an author I have read from in every age group, but haven’t read in a few years. I found Remember Us as her newest middle grade book and added it on here.

Grounded is a middle grade books about a bunch of kids getting stuck at the airport during a storm.

Saints of the Household is a YA I found from a literary award that Remember Us also won, so I added it.

Magnolia Parks is a romance series I’ve been seeing everywhere. I have seen so many good reviews and I’d like to read it for myself. I actually have no idea what it’s actually about, just that people love it and most people who do say it’s one of their favorite series.

Concrete Rose is also on my shelf. I got this book for Christmas a few years ago and just haven’t gotten around to reading it.

Billy Summers is a Stephen King book I’ve wanted to get to for a while. I own so many books by him I haven’t read and just picked this one to add, but really I have so many I should get to.

Octavia Butler is a pretty popular scifi author I’ve never read. This one in particular is also centered on vampires in some way and I’d like to try it.

These last three are ones I physically own that I really hope to get to.

I’ve owned Priory for at least 3 or 4 years. And the other two have been on my shelf a while, too. I really need to get through my physical TBR in 2025 because you guys know mine is too big at this point.

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