With 2025 coming to a close, it’s time for BookPage’s annual round up of the year’s best books. Bestsellers, such as John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis, or Victoria Schwab’s “genre-defying” Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil were to be expected. Others, like The Starving Saints, a “twisted and sapphic” novel by Caitlin Starling and the “powerfully quiet” Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood are surprising additions to the list.
Keep any eye out around the library for the “BookPage Best of 2025” marker to find titles that didn’t make it into this short blog post and pick up a copy of this month’s BookPage to discover a new favorite of your own!