Saturday, May 31, 2025

Conversations' Top 25 Summer Reads, 2025


Conversations Book Club President Cyrus Webb is pleased to share Conversations' 25 Summer Reads of 2025. It is our hope that these fiction and non-fiction titles will bring you as much enjoyment and satisfaction as they did us.

Top Non-Fiction Reads

  1. Master of Me by Keke Palmer (Flatiron Books)
  2. Dancing on Coals by Cynthia Moore (She Writes Press)
  3. Barely Visible by Kathleen Somers (She Writes Press)
  4. Facing the Jaguar by Babs Walters (She Writes Press)
  5. Matriarch by Tina Knowles (One World)
  6. Don't Walk Away by Marilyn Raichle (Counselor Books)
  7. The Artist's Roadmap by Richard Lawson (RLS Publishing)
  8. Chatterbox by Barbara Worton (Susan Schadt Press)
  9. Boat Baby by Vicky Nguyen (Simon and Schuster)
  10. Post Oak: Quanah Parker, The Comanche and the Mission by Tina Siemens (Tina Siemens)
  11. The End Is the Beginning by Jill Bialosky (Washington Square Press)
  12. Stronger by Dr. Teresa A. Smith (DQ Consulting)
  13. Before I Let You Go by Angelo Ellerbee (HOV Publishing)
  14. Standing Up by Mary L. Devine (She Writes Press)
  15. Brand It Like Serhant by Ryan Serhant (Hachette Go)
Top Fiction Reads

  1. Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray (Berkley)
  2. The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen (Thomas and Mercer)
  3. Marguerite by the Lake by Mary Dixie Carter (Minotaur)
  4. At the Island's Edge by C. I. Jerez (Lake Union)
  5. Saving Vincent by Joan Fernandez (She Writes Press)
  6. Keeping Receipts by W. Mason Dunn (W. Mason Dunn)
  7. Enemies Domestic by John DeDakis (Speaking Volumes)
  8. The Unexpected Diva by Tiffany L. Warren (William Morrow)
  9. Letters From Strangers by Susan Walter (Lake Union)