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We pored through data from tens of thousands of clubs that use Bookclubs' organizing tools to schedule meetings, decide what to read next, view book club questions, track the books they've read, and store their book ratings and reviews to bring you the definitive top book club book list of 2025!
These books were beloved by the book clubs using our website and app. To highlight only the latest and greatest books, we've limited this list to books that were published in 2025 or in the second half of 2024. (You can check out last year's most popular books here).
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Top 10 Book Club Reads of 2025
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew. In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, The Wedding People is ultimately a nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore's multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore's most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
A love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale. Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The book-club-beloved author (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six) returned with a new love story set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program.
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later.
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this sweeping new novel from Emily Henry (Funny Story, Happy Place).
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
The bestselling author of The Rose Code and The Alice Network returned with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
From the nationally bestselling author of The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
The highly anticipated third installment of Yarros' Empyrean series arrived in January 2025. Following up on the events of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, Onyx Storm finds Violet Sorrengail leaving her education behind and journeying to unfamiliar lands on a quest to save her homeland.
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
More Book Club Top Books From 2025
Rounding out the top 25 books of 2025, the following books published in 2024 or late 2023 were also popular with the book clubs on our platform:
- The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
- Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
- Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
- Quicksilver by Callie Hart
- Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
- One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
- The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
- The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- The Names by Florence Knapp
- By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
- Lights Out by Navessa Allen
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
- The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Book Club Books With Staying Power
Many older titles continued to be popular with our clubs this year. Here were the top 25 most popular older titles:
- The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
- James by Percival Everett
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
- The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- The Measure by Nikki Erlick
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
- The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
- None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
- House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- All Fours by Miranda July
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride