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💭 what were your favorite reads from 2025?

TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2025!! the first of my wrap up posts has ARRIVED! be on the lookout for a long form video where I go into each of these reads in depth, plus some favorites broken out into genres.

📚 books mentioned:

- You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White

- The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

- The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez

- The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko

- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

- Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei

- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

- Model Home by Rivers Solomon

- Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi

- The Children by Melissa Albert

👗💄:

- dress is from Aqua (thrifted)

- eyeshadow is: In A Trance Palette from Colourpop, The Lord of the Rings Middle-Earth Palette from Glamlite, and You Make Me Happy Palette from KimChi Chic Beauty

- eyeliner is Epiphany Glow Melt-On Eyeliner (Sea Sparkle) from Kaleidos

- shimimers are duochrome singles from Ourbella

- lip combo is Lip Lingerie Liner Stain (Send Nudes) from NYX Cosmetics and Jelly Job High Shine Gloss (Honey, It's Jelly) from NYX Cosmetics

- (also if you have a question about my makeup or something i’m wearing, most of it is curated in my shopmy!)

thanks to Saga Press, Tordotcom, Tor Books, Amulet Books, Knopf, Flatiron, MCD, Get Underlined, and William Morrow for the gifted copies!

#favoritebooks #readingwrapup #bestbooksof2025 #nycinfluencer #booktok @Saga Press Books 🛸🧙🏿‍♀️🔪 @Tor Publishing Group @ABRAMS Books @Knopf Doubleday @Flatiron Books @MCD Books @Get Underlined @William Morrow Books @ColourPop Cosmetics @Glamlite @KimChi Chic Beauty @Kaleidos Makeup @OURBELLA SHOP @NYX Professional Makeup

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