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December brings us to the finish line and gives us one last chance to celebrate the stories that carried us through the year. This month, we have a single category that asks you to look back at everything you’ve read and choose the book that rose above the rest.

Best Book of the Year: Members’ Top Reads from 2025
For our final pick of the year, nominate the one book that meant the most to you in 2025. Publication date doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you read it this year and it stayed with you. Maybe it surprised you, moved you, challenged you, or lingered long after the last page.

Everyone gets just one nomination AND, though I'm ecstatic if it was a monthly pick this club, it can't be one we read together this year. Having said that, please mention it if it was.

Submit your pick by Thursday, November 20. After that, we’ll vote and determine our final read of the year.

Let’s close 2025 by celebrating the stories that shaped us.

Pretty Girls

Elizabeth wrote: "Pretty Girls"

By Karin Slaughter?

“One for the Blackbird, one for the Crow” - Olivia Hawker

Hello Molly!: A memoir by Molly Shannon

My Friends by Fredrick Backman

The Goldens by Lauren Wilson

I nominate Horse

The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham

The Devils by Joe Abercrombe
Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
Katabasis by RF Kuang

A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

Heart the Lover by Lily King

Heartwood by Amity Gage

The Favorites by Layne Fargo

Best book I read this year: All the Sinners Bleed. But anything by him would be amazing.

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Conjurer's Wife by Sarah Penner
(It's a short story)

Cicero wrote: "My Friends by Fredrick Backman"

Yes, same for me!😊

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

I’m going to need to think about this for a minute I have read some amazing books in 2025.

Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser

Pretty Girls

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Covenant of water by Abraham Verghese

HOW TO READ A BOOK
BY MONICA WOOD

On a personal note, I learned I have breast cancer and I am having a double mastectomy Thursday, 1/20/25.
Please send positive energy, prayers or whatever you are comfortable with my way. I’m praying they have caught this early, so early that no other treatment will be needed. I am also praying for an uneventful recovery process. Please and thank you!

Prayers Monica 🙏

Julie wrote: "HOW TO READ A BOOK
BY MONICA WOOD

On a personal note, I learned I have breast cancer and I am having a double mastectomy Thursday, 1/20/25.
Please send positive energy, prayers or whatever you a..." Sending prayers of healing and a peaceful safe recovery, Monica.

Julie wrote: "HOW TO READ A BOOK
BY MONICA WOOD

On a personal note, I learned I have breast cancer and I am having a double mastectomy Thursday, 1/20/25.
Please send positive energy, prayers or whatever you a..."

Sending you prayers, positive energy, and anything else you need.

Send me your address and I'll send you a card and a book to read during recovery.