25 Novels in 2025

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5 participants (13 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I wanted to follow up this past year with the same challenge by @hunziker  

 
 As they noted in last year's challenge: Read 25 novels in 2025. No non-fiction, no short stories, no graphic novels - only novels "in the classical sense". 

Challenge Books

All books added
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Better Than the Movies

Better Than the Movies #1

Lynn Painter

10 hours, 29 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance young adult funny lighthearted medium-paced
City of Bones by Martha Wells

City of Bones

Martha Wells

416 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Witch King by Martha Wells

Witch King

The Rising World #1

Martha Wells

414 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Only Human by Eliel Betancourt

Only Human

Eliel Betancourt

302 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction romance
Deenie by Judy Blume

Deenie

Judy Blume

3 hours, 32 minutes • first pub 1973 (editions) user-added

fiction childrens young adult emotional fast-paced
Charlotte's Reject by K.R. Treadway

Charlotte's Reject

Charlotte's Spiders #1

K.R. Treadway

398 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional slow-paced
A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

A House With Good Bones

T. Kingfisher

256 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction horror dark funny mysterious medium-paced
Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews

Don't Let the Forest In

C.G. Drews

8 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

378 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ literary romance adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

The Seven Year Slip

Ashley Poston

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary magical realism romance emotional funny hopeful medium-paced