Season 8, Episode 24: Mary and Roxanna's Top Reads of 2025!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Mary and Roxanna take the reins and are deep diving into their top reads of 2025!

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1:21 - Mary and Roxanna’s Reading Year

4:14 - Mary’s Reading Stats:

100 books read this year and picked up some graphic novels that normally she wouldn’t have read in the past

7:54 - Roxanna’s Reading Stats:

68 books read this year. 

26 five star reads

15% general fiction, 16% historical fiction, 15% lit fic, 13% middle grade, 20% POC authors, 96% fiction

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14:25 - Mary and Roxanna’s Best Books of 2025

14:38 - The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das (Roxanna #10)

17:09 - Empty Cradle, Broken Heart by Deborah L. Davis

18:16 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Mary #10)

19:23 - Sandwich by Catherine Newman

19:40 - The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z Hossain (Roxanna #9)

21:48 - Heart the Lover by Lily King (Mary #9)

22:36 - Writers & Lovers by Lily King

24:37 - The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe (Roxanna #8)

27:16 - The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Mary #8)

30:46 - To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (Roxanna #7)

34:06 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Ladies of Mad Science: Secrets of the Purple Pearl by Kate McKinnon (Mary #7)

35:35 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon

37:39 - The Unseen World by Liz Moore (Roxanna #6)

40:04 - The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff (Mary #6)

42:27 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

43:09 - The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman (Roxanna #5)

45:00 - Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

46:01 - The Bones Beneath by Skin by T.J. Klune (Mary #5)

46:35 - House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

50:11 - Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Roxanna #4)

50:24 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

54:14 - The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller (Mary #4)

54:33 - Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

54:41 - The Change by Kirsten Miller

56:59 - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Roxanna #3)

59:14 - Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross (Mary #3)

59:36 - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

1:00:05 - Circe by Madeline Miller

1:00:07 - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

1:01:02 - The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Roxanna #2)

1:05:08 - The Correspondent by Virgina Evans (Mary #2)

1:08:17 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower (Roxanna #1 - the whole series!)

1:10:30 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

1:10:36 - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

1:14:41 - Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian by Tim Probert (Mary #1 - the whole series!)

1:15:31 - Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird by Tim Probert

1:15:31 - Lightfall: The Dark Times by Tim Probert

1:17:22 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

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