#tbr 2025

[obsessiveacademic]

Been wanting to get a column for my books. Finally came across one and my gods.... its perfect :')

[ronandreams]

9 BOOKS I PLAN TO READ IN 2025 📖

tagged by @henrywinteris and @halfstayed, thank you lovelies! 🥰

yes, many of these were on my last year's tbr; hopefully this year i will finally read them lol

tagging (if you want ofc): @kahans , @jeanmoreaux , @nordstars , @jeaanmoreau , @bluesrrgents , @heartwasglass , @halfmoonshines , @spiteslucanis, @userlorelai, @jjameslily, @cavarage, @bvck-barnes, @hellshee, @swkywalker, @aredhels, @tornadocowboy, @burke-juliet, @somosinevitables, @sorrengailviolet, @slyhtherins, @aglionbyacademia, @riccis, @sunflowervol6.

[lululawrence]

2025 TBR

I was tagged by @allwaswell16 and @haztobegood to list my 2025 books to be read! Now, I am admittedly horrible when it comes to reading published fiction these days, but these are books I've been holding onto and wanting to read actively, so I really do want to try to read them this year as I have the opportunity!

So, my girl @briannamarguerite is just one of the most beautiful writers out there, genuinely! And I started reading the Librarian of Burned Books as soon as it came out and I was LOVING IT, but then the holiday season happened that year and... it was a really bad fall for me mental health wise... and I never did pick the book back up again despite literally carrying it with me almost everywhere I go since then (the book is so ragged by now because of this, it's ridiculous). Anyway, I gifted it to my sister for Christmas last month, and she is insisting that she will read this at the same time as me, and same with the Lost Book of Bonn. That worked really well with some books last year, so I'm hoping that's just the push I needed to get back into the Librarian of Burned Books and to read the Lost Book of Bonn as well :D

So I've actually LISTENED to the audiobook of Soft Lad almost three times through now because it's a comfort book for me in that way, but the audiobook was a bit abridged. Now, I own a signed copy of it, and that along with How to Kill Your Family have been sitting at the head of my bed for over a year now, just waiting for me to pick them up. So. I'm really hoping that this year is the year for both of them. I want to see what is in the printed book that wasn't in the audiobook! And Bella is a fantastically evocative writer, so I'm really excited to finally be able to delve into her fiction too.

These last two, I debated whether I should count and ultimately decided I should lololol So, the 8 volumes of the Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion by Beth Brower? I read the first seven of those books all in September last year lol like... over the course of a week and a half or two weeks. Which is obscenely fast for me these days, and they reawakened my love of printed fiction. Reminded me I can feel just as passionate about published fiction as I do about fic. I've been wanting to reread them ever since I read through them in September, especially since book 8 came out at the end of November, so I read that in December and early January haha but I do plan to read all 8 of them again this year once my sister has the last four books back to me lol And along with that, I don't have The Boxcar Librarian just yet, but I do plan to own that as well and when I do it will be on the list with the others.

So there we are. My likely incredibly unrealistic for me TBR for 2025!

And now I'm meant to tag people, but I don't even know who to tag, sooooo @laynefaire @londonfoginacup @crinkle-eyed-boo @evilovesyou @louandhazaf aaaaand @moon-sun-thyme in case you read published fiction, what's on your TBR for 2025?

[andy-the-irregular]

Nine books on my TBR list!

Tagged by @thorin-is-a-cuddler | Thank you so much!

Not following any specific theme with these titles on my list, pretty much just what sounds interesting. I'm still pretty early on reading as a hobby so I still have some essentials to get into but I'm enjoying the journey lol

[littlecakeclub]

📚 Books on my TBR I really want to get to this year This year I’m trying to reduce the number of ongoing series I’m juggling—2026 should be the year of closure, not cliffhangers 😭

So here are a few series I really want to dive into or finish:

— The Poppy War trilogy: I’ve been putting it off because I know I’ll want to binge it all at once. — A Day of Fallen Night: I adored Priory of the Orange Tree, so this is high on my list. — Rereading + finishing Marie Brennan’s A Natural History of Dragons series. I miss Lady Trent! — Finishing Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes quartet. Loved book 1, started book 2. Then, I just... drifted.

Making this to hold my self accountable XD What about you? Any series you’re hoping to finish this year?

[thorin-is-a-cuddler]

Tagged by the lovely @vera-dauriac to post nine books from my tbr for this year! A limit of nine books is definitely a good idea!

I am a bookseller and a student, so I generally have three categories of books on my tbr: 1) books I should probably read for work 2) books I must read at uni 3) books I want to read desperately. This semester I have a course about Anne-Marie Louise d‘Orléans and her „Mémoires“ and I adoooore it, which means uni-reading and pleasure-reading go hand in hand. Besides this, I have mostly listed books I read for pleasure, though „Onyx Storm“ feels a bit like a duty:

Tagging: @caricature-of-a-witch @colourinside @andy-the-irregular @acastleintheclouds @utka-v-tapke @cas-kingdom @eremeldanin @jacksnervesofsteel @wingsofhcpe

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

2025 TBR 📚

thank you @evilovesyou for tagging me! loved your post, lots to discover there...

BOOKS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON MY NIGHTSTAND

shuggie bain - douglas stuart

i'm about halfway through this novel that i've been dying to read for a while now. i read young mungo, stuart's second novel, last year and it was an instant favorite of mine. and now i am absolutely devouring this one. it's set in glasgow, following the life of shuggie as he grows up with a mother that struggles very heavily with alcoholism. the hard life, described with love, without looking away from all the ugly parts, is what captivates me.

ulysses - james joyce

it is a huge goal in life to finish ulysses. i started a while ago (like.. 1,5 years ago) and now i'm about 1/3rd of the way through. i really enjoy it, but i don't have the proper brain for it every night. i know i will finish it eventually, because when i do have the right brain, i enjoy it a lot

after the revolution - robert evans

this is on my phone, for when i'm on the go and didn't bring a physical book. it's written by one of my favorite podcast hosts ever, and so far it's an interesting look into his brain tbh. it's an imagination of what the us would look like in the future, maybe fifty years from now, after a huge revolution has taken place and the country is split into warring factions. relevant... perhaps. (you can download it here if you want bc he is just like that)

BOOKS THAT I WANT TO READ AGAIN

i think i want to read the song of achilles again at some point. but i don't know. i think at this point in my life i'm so excited about reading new books, that i don't want to reread things just yet! but i have a few books i read when i was a lot younger and would like to read again, which will genuinely feel like i'm reading them for the first time. like some of the vonnegut ones i read almost ten years ago, or brideshead revisited, which i read before i was as adept as i am now at properly sussing out all the queer signalling.

BOOKS THAT I HAVE HAD FOR AN EMBARRASSING AMOUNT OF TIME WITHOUT FINISHING/READING THEM

books that i have started for a long time but haven't finished: ulysses huehuehuehueue buuuuut also lanark by alasdair gray. i've read it almost all the way through three times now lol, once for school and then twice since. i am captivated by this author's writing, since one of his other novels (something leather) is one of my favs of all time, but this is a brick of a book, set in a new world with a lot of unfamiliar scenes described in complicated language so... yeah. not an easy read. but i am determined to, at some point, read it all the way to the end.

as for the books that i've owned for ages but haven't read: the beat hotel - barry miles. i had a huge beat generation phase as a teen and i am actually still set on reading up on all of them. i have books that i bought back then and just never read past the first chapters. no idea why. third one in this line-up is a swim in a pond in the rain, which is basically literary theory poured into a nice book. it analyses scenes from russian literature. i once read a good chunk of it and loved it!!! and then i stopped lol. i had a major reading slump after 2019 ngl, which i'm only just coming back from. (so far i'm back up to speed when it comes to fiction, but non-fiction still needs a push, clearly)

BOOKS THAT I ALREADY OWN THAT I AM EXCITED TO READ

here's three, even though there are a lot more. my bookcase is a mess. but this year stephen fry is coming to my city to do a reading about mythos, so i will probably be reading that one first. i own troy, which i will probably read right before or soon after mythos. been loving all the books that help me brush up on my greek mythology. demon copperhead has been on my list for a while, and now my mom randomly found it in a little exchange library at the station. i think it'll be similar in vibes to shuggie bain, which i'm excited about. then i recently bought never anyone but you in a small indie queer/feminist bookshop in utrecht, nl. it's about the life of claude cahun and suzanne malherbe, two real historical figures from ww2 era france, who lived a beautiful, vibrant, artistic, but hard queer life. i already read a graphic novel about claude last year, so i'm excited to read this novel, which i assume will focus more on their love story.

i also wanted to mention some tbrs that i don't own and will probably download somewhere, because this year i want to focus again some more on politics and brush up on my knowledge and history of anarchism etc. so here's some of my (urgent) tbrs:

tagging.......... anyone who likes to read!! perhaps @persephoneflouwers @moonbeamalice if you feel like it <333

[books-and-strawberry-tea]

Brain dump TBR for January and February

(Subject to change at this point in time cause I’m still figuring it out hehe)

As usual, I can DNF any book I feel. And swap it to another if I’m not feeling it.

˗ˋˏ ♡January♡ ˎˊ˗

Heat of the Everflame - 1026 Pages

Phantom (Releases January 21st) - Unknown Pages

If You Could See The Sun - 345 Pages

˗ˋˏ ♡February♡ ˎˊ˗

The Priory of the Orange Tree - 848

Or The Serpent and the Wings of Night - 504 (one of the first two depending on how I feel?)

Foxglove - 465 Pages

I Am Not Jessica Chen - 320 Pages

Immortal - 464 pages

˗ˋˏ ♡March♡ ˎˊ˗

My Funny Demon Valentine (have to read this month) 368 Pages

TBD

˗ˋˏ ♡April♡ ˎˊ˗

The Shadow Bride (Releases April 2nd) 672 Pages

TBD

Bro I honestly have no clue what I’m doing right now, I’m sick (FUCKING AGAIN!) and there’s so much I want to read. Having an unrealistic tbr while trying to set realistic tbr goals each month is hard.