I couldn’t be more excited to share the book list for our 2025 Ramblers' Book Club and Reading Challenge with you all!
To curate this year's list, I carefully reviewed the suggestions we’ve gathered in our group. Three genres emerged as favorites: Historical Fiction, Romance, and Mystery, with a special focus on strong, compelling female characters.
After polling the group on literary classics and their modern reimaginings, the two most popular combinations were The Scarlet Letter + The Invisible Hour and Little Women + March. Rather than choosing just one, I’ve decided to bookend the year with both—starting and ending with these iconic pairings.
The remaining eight months feature a wonderful mix of your collective recommendations and my own picks. Some titles are brand new, while others come from the early 2000s. Authors from Ireland, Australia, the US, and the UK offer a diverse and thought-provoking reading experience.
Here’s the full list!!
2025 Book Club Selections
January: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
February: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman (2023)
March: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Pulitzer, 2011)
April: The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis (2023)
May: Trust by Hernan Diaz (Pulitzer, 2023)
June: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (2019)
July: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (2020)
August: Dirt Music by Tim Winton (2001)
September: The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable (2024)
October: The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan (2024)
November: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
December: March by Geraldine Brooks (Pulitzer, 2006)
Bonus Books:
- Greenwood by Michael Christie (2020)
- The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad (2019)
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2018)
- The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson (2022) (Sequel to June's pick)
- The Book of Lost Names, by Kristin Harmel (2020)
I can’t wait to dive into these incredible stories with you all! Whether you're revisiting a classic or discovering something new, 2025 promises to be an unforgettable year of reading. Let’s get started!
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