Before January is over, I wanted to post my favorite audiobooks from 2025!
Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson (2024)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams (2022)
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (2019)
The Favorites by Layne Fargo (2025)
Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz (2025)
All Fours by Miranda July (2024)
Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik (2024)
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (2024)
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (2019)
I listened to a fair amount of recently published books. The Blind Assassin was actually a print/audiobook combination, but the audio was so good, I included it in my list of favorites. Links go to the publisher’s pages, but some of these I have written about in 2025 posts.
Currently Reading
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Elle, Christian Science Monitor, She Reads
So many bloggers listed The Correspondent in their favorites of 2025 or had chosen it for their First Book of the Year that I bumped it up on my TBR list. It’s an epistolary novel, a book about books and authors, and a reflection on the past by a woman in her 70s confronting her own mortality and grief.
Recently Read
Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger
“The best kind of novel: compelling, warm, funny, and complicated, full of kick-ass women in tangled relationships, spanning generations and coming of age again and again. Susan Rieger tackles my favorite subjects: writing, family, and the conditions of unconditional love.”— Laurie Frankel, bestselling author of Family Family
Currently Listening To
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
“Imagine if The Time Traveler’s Wife had an affair with A Gentleman in Moscow…Readers, I envy you: There’s a smart, witty novel in your future.” — Ron Charles, The Washington Post
This post is linked up to It’s Monday, What Are You Reading, hosted by The Book Date. It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is a place to meet up and share what you have been and are currently reading each week. Visit the link-up for more books to add to your groaning TBR pile.
