29 of the most popular book club books of 2025 (so far)

Listen for the Lie Amy Tintera

Lucy Chase can’t remember anything about the night her best friend was murdered.

Lucky her, you’re probably thinking. Who would want that to be their last memory of someone they love?

But for Lucy, it’s become an issue.

Because everyone thinks she did it.

Real Americans Rachel Khong

Following three generations of one Chinese American family, Real Americans is a mesmerising, multilayered family drama which explores the choices we make for ourselves, and for our children. Spanning decades and continents, it is a soaring, heartfelt story about fate, fortune, and what it means to belong.

Table For Two Amor Towles

In Table for Two, Amor Towles shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. Written with his signature wit, humour and sophistication, the book is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.

The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched the nation.

The Last Letter: TikTok made me buy it Rebecca Yarros

From the author of Fourth Wing, comes this heartbreaking yet hopeful story about how love has the power to heal all wounds. In one final letter, Ryan shares his final wish: ‘Go take care of my sister, my family. Please don’t make her go through it alone.’

Orbital Samantha Harvey

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe.The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part — or protective — of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?

Playground Richard Powers

Playground follows four lives —  a pioneering marine biologist, a free-spirited artist, and two polar opposites whose boyhood bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game sends one into literature and the other onto an AI breakthrough.

The Stolen Queen Fiona Davis

From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.

Three Days in June Anne Tyler

It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job — or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting to stay for the festivities. He doesn’t even have a suit. Instead, he’s brought memories, a shared sense of humour — and a cat looking for a new home.

There are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak

There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris — their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh.

Project Hail Mary Andy Weir

An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian —  while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

Long Bright River Liz Moore

Once inseparable, sisters Mickey and Kacey are on different paths, but they walk the same streets. Mickey on her police beat and Kacey in the shadows of the city's darkest corners where the drug addicts and sex workers preside. When a string of murders coincides with Kacey's disappearance, Mickey is terrified her sister could be next.

But in a community where death and murder is rife, will Mickey be able to save her sister before it's too late?

The Husbands Holly Gramazio

What if you could change husbands as easily as a lightbulb?

One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence — from photos to electricity bills — suggests he’s right. And then another one appears. Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her.

The Collected Regrets of Clover Mikki Brammer

In her work as a ‘death doula’, Clover Brooks ushers people peacefully through their last days, collecting their final words into three notebooks: ADVICE, CONFESSIONS and REGRETS.

But Clover spends so much time with the dying that she’s forgotten how to live . . .

The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt

A powerful argument for reclaiming childhood — and all human relationships — from the online world, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author.

The Favourites Layne Fargo

An epic love story that reimagines the tempestuous romance of Wuthering Heights in the sparkling, savage world of elite figure skating. 

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.

None of This is True Lisa Jewell

Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact birthday twins.

Before Alix knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into her life — and into her home . . . but she’s hiding some very dark secrets.

A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles

Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.

Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?

Good Dirt Charmaine Wilkerson

Ebby Freeman’s life has always been marked with tragedy. First, the death of her brother Baz, killed in an anonymous armed robbery when they were teenagers. Then her perfect fiancé Henry deserting her on the day of their wedding, without an explanation.

When Ebby arrives in a sleepy French village, she believes she’s found an opportunity for healing and anonymity. Until Henry appears, staying at the neighbouring property with his beautiful new girlfriend in tow.

Someone Else's Shoes Jojo Moyes

Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women.

Nisha, 45, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband inexplicably cuts her off entirely. She doesn't even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.

That's because Sam — 47, middle-aged, struggling to keep herself and her family afloat — has accidentally taken Nisha's gym bag.

The Tell Amy Griffin

For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all looked, in many ways, perfect. But Amy was running from something — a secret she was keeping not only from her family and friends, but unconsciously from something terrible in her past.

Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground.

During the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore . . . but she isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater.

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Benjamin Stevenson

I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder.

Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort, snow and bodies piling up.

The thing is, us Cunninghams don’t really get along. We’ve only got one thing in common: we’ve all killed someone.

The Spectacular Fiona Davis

As Marion, a Radio City Rockette, and Peter, a young doctor, find themselves unexpectedly pulled in to the police search for the notorious ‘Big Apple Bomber’, Marion realises that as much as she’s been training herself to blend in — performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes — if she hopes to catch the bomber, she’ll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing so, she may be forced to sacrifice everything she’s worked for, as well as the people she loves the most.

Becoming Madam Secretary Stephanie Dray

When Frances Perkins meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance, sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he’s a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. He thinks she’s a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House.

The Second Mrs. Astor Shana Abe

Perfect for fans of Jennifer Chiaverini and Marie Benedict, this riveting novel takes you inside the scandalous courtship and catastrophic honeymoon aboard the Titanic of the most famous couple of their time — John Jacob Astor and Madeleine Force. Told in rich detail, this novel of sweeping historical fiction will stay with readers long after turning the last page

Our Infinite Fates Laura Steven

They've loved each other in every lifetime. They've killed each other in every one.

Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday.

The problem is that she’s quite fond of the one she’s in now, and more importantly, her sister needs her for bone marrow transplants to stay alive.

Happy Place Emily Henry

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple — they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone.

Educated Tara Westover

At sixteen, to escape her father's radicalism and a violent older brother, Tara left home. What followed was a struggle for self-invention, a journey that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.