Hi and welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday Post! As we jump a little bit back and forth between looking back on 2025 and forward to 2026 this month, it’s now time to do the first once again. And this will be the last post doing so, I promise. This week, it’s time to talk about all our bookish discoveries of 2025! This can be anything, from new-to-you authors, to trends, to genres and so forth. I have been stating a lot lately that I don’t really anticipate new releases anymore because of the disappointment I often face and that I want to focus on my backlog instead. But when it’s time to talk about our bookish discoveries of 2025, it eventually is the perfect moment to list all the 2025 releases I have read in 2025. I won’t limit myself to just ten books, I will go all the way and list everything that has been published in 2025. Dutch translations are left out, as they often publish way later than the original book. So, are you ready for probably a long list? Okay, let’s go! This list is ordered from first to latest read and links direct you to my reviews.
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
- A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
- Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
- Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- Red Flags by Robin Venn
- Watch Me by Tahereh Mafi
- Hoe klein de wereld is by Carla de Jong & Walter Lucius
- Fun For the Whole Family by Jennifer E. Smith
- Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill
- Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
- One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
- Fearless by Lauren Roberts
- What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon
- The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
- The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
- Noorderlicht by Carry Slee
- The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- My Friends by Fredrik Backman
- The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
- When the Fireflies Dance by Aisha Hassan
- Broeder Joep by Joep van Poorten
- En wat dan liefde is by Lisette Jonkman
- Semi-well Adjusted Despite Literally Everything by Alyson Stoner
- Hoe overleef ik alles wat anders gaat dan gedacht by Francine Oomen
- Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai
- The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji
- Arcana Academy by Elise Kova
- The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
- Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber
From the 96 books I’ve read, the majority is indeed from my backlist. However, I didn’t count Dutch translations from older books, because translations often take a while before they get published. A book would be a 2025 release in Dutch, although it has been out for a longer while in English. Sometimes even over a decade. After analyzing this, I can conclude that I stick true to my word and maintain a good balance between my backlog and the new releases!
What are your bookish discoveries of 2025?
