I’m always collecting book titles to add to my TBR list. They can be recommendations from friends/family, new releases, books by authors I’ve enjoyed in the past, books I came across in bookstores or articles, books I’ve purchased but haven’t read yet, and books for my book club. I’m listing them here so I have one place to refer to when I’m looking for my next book to read.
If the title is marked in green, it means I read it in 2025.
Recommendations from Friends
- Children of Time by Adria Tchaikovsky (recommended by Paul T.)
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell (recommended by Chris L.)
- Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman (recommended by David S.)
- The Color of Magic (Discworld #1) by Terry Pratchett (recommended by Alyce R.)
- The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon (recommended by Karen H.)
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (recommended by Kelly B.)
2025 Releases I’m Excited About
- All the Water In the World by Eiren Caffall (January 7 release)
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (Empyrean Book 3) (January 21 release)
- Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks (release date February 4)
- Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (release date February 11)
- Three Days in June by Anne Tyler (release date February 11)
- We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes (February 11 release)
- Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister (February 25 release)
- Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (March 4 release)
- Everything Is Turberculosis by John Green (release date March 18)
- Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (April 22 release)
- Never Flinch by Stephen King (May 27 release)
- Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab (June 10 release)
- The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith (September 9 release)
- A Slowly Dying Cause by Elizabeth George (Lynley #22) (September 23 release)
Books by Authors I’ve Enjoyed
- We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
- Florida by Lauren Groff
- The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett
- The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
- Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret by Benjamin Stevenson
- More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova
- The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
Books I Came Across in Bookstores or Lists
- The Upstairs House by Julia Fine (book store)
- End of Story by A.J. Finn (book store)
- When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe (bookstore)
- Like, Comment, Subscribe by Mark Bergen (book store)
- How To Leave the House by Nathan Newman (book store)
- Mobituaries by Mo Rocca (library list)
- The Terror by Dan Simmons (library list)
- In Memoriam by Alice Winn (New York Times)
- Character Limit: How Elon Must Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger (book store)
- Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Booker Prize list)
- Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (article in The Atlantic)
- Lexicon by Max Barry (article in The Atlantic)
- To Name the Bigger Lie by Sarah Viren (article in The Atlantic)
- Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang (article in The Atlantic)
- Consent by Jill Ciment (article in The Atlantic)
- All Fours by Miranda July (New York Times article on 10 Best Books of 2024)
Books Sitting On My Kindle Waiting To Be Read
- Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- Hot Dog Money by Guy Lawson
- The Wager by David Grann
- Elon Musk by Walter Issacson
- A Future We Can Love by Susan Bauer-Wu
- Evil Geniuses by Kurt Anderson
- Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
- Table for Two by Amor Towles
- Southern Man by Greg Iles
- Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister
Classic Books To Read
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Book Club Books
- Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins—and WWII Heroes by Tim Brady (MARCH)
- Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary, MD (APRIL- REREAD)
- Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen (MAY)
- Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water by Vicki Valosik (JUNE)
- Five Decembers by James Kestrel (JULY)
- When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins (AUGUST)
- Year of Living Danishly by Karen Russell (SEPTEMBER)
- Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (OCTOBER – REREAD)
- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci (NOVEMBER)
