2025 Reading Review
Illustration of a pile of colorful books with hand lettering on them that reads, “My Favorite Reads of 2025”
If you’ve been around a while you know I am a voracious reader. I always have been. In fact, as I began my autism self diagnosis journey and learned about hyperlexia, it was a major clue.
These days my reading is exclusively through audio books because of my disabilities. I check them out almost entirely from the library using the Libby app, but I also have a subscription to Libro.fm.
What I read in a year and when is based almost entirely upon what comes up from hold at the library. The only time I deviate from that is if I have to get something read for one of the three book clubs which I have joined.
That said, I make an effort to books on hold that are by authors of the global majority because I find that the books are better and it aligns with my values and I do not knowingly read anything by someone who does not align with my values.
The books in my review aren’t necessarily published this year, this is just the year I read them. I like to pick a favorite in both fiction and nonfiction and a top 10 in each. I read about 75% fiction 25% nonfiction every year.
Favorite reads of 2025:
Picture of the cover of “Against the Loveless World” by Susan Abulhawa with orange, pink, and navy quilt like shapes in the background.
Fiction: “Against the Loveless World” by Susan Abulhawa
Nonfiction: “A Little Devil in America” by Hanif Abdurraqib
Picture of the cover of “A Little Devil in America” by Hanif Abdurraqib with a black background and white lettering with two Black people dancing.
My top 10 fiction books of 2025 (in no particular order):
“American War” by Omar El Akkad
“Enter Ghost” by Isabella Hammad
“The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye” by Briony Cameron
“Swordheart” by T. Kingfisher
“Mornings in Jenin” by Susan Abulhawa
“The Buccaneers” by Edith Wharton
Illustration of an open book with a thread of my top 10 fiction reads of 2025 (listed above)
My top 10 nonfiction books of 2025 (in no particular order):
“We Alive, Beloved” by Frederick Joseph
“A Mind Spread Out On the Ground” by Alicia Elliott
“Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement” by Ashley Shew
“We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance” by Kellie Carter Jackson
“Slow Noodles” by Chantha Nguon
“Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments” by Saidiya Hartman
“We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I” by Raja Shedhadeh
Illustration of an open book with a thread about my top 10 nonfiction reads of 2025 (listed above)
As always, you can connect with me on Storygraph, where I track and review all of my reads all year long.
I’d love to hear what your favorite reads of the year were.
Illustration of an open book with my StoryGraph graphic showing number of books read, pages read, first and last reads, etc…
