We’ve gathered the most popular books in 2025 for a look back at the year! In each of our monthly newsletters, we share the top two most-viewed titles on the Reading Group Choices site for that month.
Here are the titles — a mix of fiction and nonfiction — that caught our readers’ attention from January to December: the most popular books in 2025. Do you remember these great reads? See if they match your own group’s most popular books…
January
1. Grace of the Empire State
by Gemma Tizzard
2. What to Do When You Get Dumped
by Suzy Hopkins & Hallie Bateman
February
1. American Mother
by Diane Foley & Colum McCann
2. The Dollhouse Academy
by Margarita Montimore
March
1. A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl
by Nanda Reddy
2. When We Grow Up
by Angelica Baker
April
1. The Lilac People
by Milo Todd
2. The Disappeared
by Rebecca J. Sanford
May
1. Still Born
by Guadalupe Nettel
2. Notes from a Regicide
by Isaac Fellman
June
1. The Witchstone
by Henry H. Neff
2. The Great Divide
by Cristina Henríquez
July
1. The Club
by Jennifer Dasal
2. Cheesecake
by Mark Kurlansky
August
1. Familiaris
by David Wroblewski
2. Spectacular Things
by Beck Dorey-Stein
September
1. Man Picks Flowers
by Roger King
2. Loneliness & Company
by Charlee Dyroff
October
1. My Name Means Fire
by Atash Yaghmaian
2. That Librarian
by Amanda Jones
November
1. Bog Queen
by Anna North
2. The Mad Wife
by Meagan Church
December
1. The Heir Apparent
by Rebecca Armitage
2. Huguette
by Cara Black
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