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