August. And this is my best book of the year, although it will actually be released in April of 2026. So many women have been going back over events in our lives as we've realized that we've spent those lives swimming in a sea full of misogyny and…
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Best books I've read in 2025, month by month, by Multcolib My Librarian Diana
At the end of every month, I look over what I've read and pick the best, the jewel, the cream of the crop. At the end of the year, I try to choose the best book I've read this year.
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Dear Monica Lewinsky
a Novel
- January. Adichie’s voice is so full of curiosity, insight and humanity that this novel about four unmarried women who were born in Nigeria grabbed me from the very first page.
- February. This novel tells the story of a complicated family full of interesting and well-developed characters in a vivid Bengali setting in the city of Kolkata. There's a fantastic and crumbling mansion, a love triangle, and many snacks that sound…
- February (there were two). I appreciate how Walter shows compassion to his characters, even the jerky ones. This is funnier than Walter's other books, and the writing is great, of course. I like the journey the main character takes in this novel. I…
- March. This begins at a lake house in Montana, where a bride is planning her wedding to a handsome doctor, but she’s strangely drawn to his best friend… and then the story goes far into the future and nips back into the past, too, and you really…
- April. This novel starts with the story of a young woman who works so hard in a fishing village in Korea. She’s not in Korea long, though. This novel is about the plight of the many Koreans who left Japanese-occupied Korea so they could get jobs…
- May. This follows three people, starting with Lily, a Chinese-American woman living in New York City in the 1990s who falls in love with a man from an obscenely rich family. Then it skips ahead to her teenage son in the 2020s, and back to her…
- July. The main character of Beasts of the Sea is Steller's sea cow, a marine mammal as big as a school bus that was "discovered" in the 18th century- and was extinct 30 years later because it was delicious and not very good at escaping from humans.…
- June. This is a deceptively simple and deeply moving novel about a love story that starts in college. At its heart it's about how, even though you love the life you have, you can still carry real grief for the lives you wound up not living. Prepare…
- September. This novel is to be released in January of 2026. The main character of this novel is a ghost- or maybe an angel? Anyway, since dying maybe 40 or 50 years ago, she's taken on the task of helping dying people through their last hours. But…
- October. This isn't exactly original- it's a tale of a young woman's affair with an older, married man, set in Ireland during the 1970s, when the Troubles were raging. But the writing was vivid and distinctive, and the audiobook reader was…
- November. If you're obsessed with music and you enjoy fiction with a feminist perspective, this might be for you. There's also a pretty compelling romance. I listened to this audiobook in about a day, pausing occasionally to listen to the songs…
- December. This memoir tells of how Patti Smith was an arty little weirdo as a child who turned into an arty adult weirdo and is now an arty crone weirdo. And I loved it. Almost as much as Just Kids. I appreciate her absolute confidence in who she is…
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