It’s not really the midpoint of the year—we still have to get through June—but that hasn’t stopped Goodreads and others from issuing their lists of the Best Books of the Year So Far. Here at Book Riot, we’ll be holding out until July, as is proper. But in the meantime, you can check out the lists for The Most Read Books on Goodreads in 2025 (So Far) as well as the The Most Popular New Books on Goodreads in 2025 (So Far).
The Most Read list is made up of 144 book covers, separated by genre, but the Most Popular New Books list has some explanation for each title. The 51 books selected are also sorted by genre: Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance Novels, Mysteries & Thrillers, Fantasy Novels, Romantasy Novels, Sci-Fi Novels, Horror Novels, Young Adult Novels, Memoirs, History & Biography, and General Nonfiction.
All the books included were published in 2025, and they’re selected according to how many Goodreads users have marked them as Read or Want to Read. Here are just a few of the books featured.
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Contemporary Fiction)
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Contemporary Fiction)
Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Historical Fiction)
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson (Historical Fiction)
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Romance Novels)
The Crash by Freida McFadden (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab (Fantasy Novels)
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Fantasy Novels)
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig (Romantasy)
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (Sci-Fi Novels)
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Sci-Fi Novels)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (Horror Novels)
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker (Horror Novels)
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Young Adult Novels)
Oathbound by Tracy Deonn (Young Adult Novels)
The House of My Mother by Shari Franke (Memoirs)
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (History & Biography)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (General Nonfiction)
You can find the full list of 51 titles, including write-ups for each, at Goodreads.
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Source : The Most Popular New Books on Goodreads in 2025 (So Far)
