Real Talk with Jessica
Compounding Curiosity: 90 Books in 2025 + Reading’s Long Game
I finished my 2025 Goodreads Reading Challenge and felt that familiar spark of satisfaction.
The goal in 2025 was 88 books. I read 90.
But the impact is SO much more than the number – books have altered my thinking, feeling, and doing!
Here are my top 10 books of 2025 (in no partcicular order):
Life Lessons From Reading 86 Books on Goodreads This Year
Starting 2025 inspired by 85 books I read in 2024 - yay #Goodreadschallenge! 🧡 so many but I chose 3 fiction: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese + The Women by Kristin Hannah + Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty 📚 3 non-fiction: Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act + Sudhir Venkatesh’s Gang Leader for a Day + Iris Apfel’s Accidental Icon 💃🏼
Special mentions: The Glass Maker by Tracy Chevalier + Circe by Madeline Miller + Karma by Boy George (audiobook)
12 Empowering Books for Multi-Passionate Book Lovers
77 books. 12 top picks in fiction, memoir + non-fiction from Jessica’s 2022 Goodreads Challenge. Stories change lives, just look at this list!
I finished my 2025 Goodreads Reading Challenge and felt that familiar spark of satisfaction.
The goal in 2025 was 88 books. I read 90.
But the impact is SO much more than the number – books have altered my thinking, feeling, and doing!
Here are my top 10 books of 2025 (in no partcicular order):