So long, 2025--these were our favs!

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