Continuing on with my exploration of my 2025 reading challenges, next up is ‘Friends Recommend’! This one has been around for a while, so I am sure many of you know about it already, but the basic premise is that you get folks to give you book recommendations. People generally go for 12, so one book a month, but you can do any number. You can also impose rules like ‘only books on my tbr’.
For 2025, I have gone a bit wild and I have 38 books on my list! I have two ‘sets’ of online friends from whom I got book choices: a small bookish Discord of friends and my fellow r/Fantasy mods. I also had zero rules, any book could be chosen! My friends know me very well and they, for the most part, chose books they knew I would probably pick for myself at some point. My fellow mods’ choices are a bit more on the wild-card side, but honestly, I am excited about every book, as I’ve said already this is the year of reading diversification!
Prepare yourself for a wall of book covers below! Let me know what you think of the picks – are there any that you’ve already read and enjoyed?
Pages of Emma 
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