25 New to you authors in 2025

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20 participants (380 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 25 books by authors you have never read before over the course of 2025!

Challenge Books

All books added
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea

Yukio Mishima

131 pages • 1963 • 69 editions

fiction classics dark reflective slow-paced
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

All Souls #1

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness

688 pages • 2011 • 115 editions

fiction fantasy romance thriller adventurous mysterious slow-paced
The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

The House of My Mother

Shari Franke

7h 9m • 2025 • 48 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

113 pages • 1848 • 385 editions

fiction classics romance emotional reflective sad fast-paced
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Cerulean Chronicles #1

The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune

398 pages • 2020 • 157 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven #1

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

4h 38m • 2003 • 124 editions

fiction contemporary emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Baby Dragon Café by A.T. Qureshi

The Baby Dragon #1

The Baby Dragon Café

A.T. Qureshi

312 pages • 2025 • 26 editions

fiction contemporary fantasy romance lighthearted medium-paced
Finding Normal by Jennifer Doktorski

Finding Normal

Jennifer Doktorski

186 pages • 2025 • 2 editions

user-added

fiction contemporary young adult
Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Orbital

Samantha Harvey

5h 7m • 2023 • 61 editions

fiction literary science fiction inspiring reflective slow-paced
Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen

The Copenhagen Trilogy #1

Childhood

Tove Ditlevsen

99 pages • 1967 • 44 editions

nonfiction classics memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced