As 2025 comes to an end, it’s a yearly tradition to celebrate my most unforgettable reads—the one’s I can’t stop thinking about and recommending.

If you read one blog post before updating your TBR for the rest of the year, make it this mid-year favorites reading roundup.

So I thought it’d be fun to do a Q1 recap of my favorite reads I would absolutely recommend picking up. There’s a mix of older reads and new, and of course, the majority are all fantasy reads.

After sitting on my bedside table for the last five years or so, I finally read my 1957 edition of A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, and WOW. What an essay.

Spy any of your favorites on this list?

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