The Everygirl’s Spring 2025 Reading Challenge

Sloane Walton trusts Lucian Rollins, a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul, about as far as she can throw his designer-suited body. But when bickering accidentally turns to foreplay, the flames are fanned, and it’s impossible to put them out again.

A former sorority girl starts a prestigious poetry MFA program only to discover that one of her classmates is her high school crush-turned-nemesis—​and he can’t stop writing about her.

The Hawthorn family tends and harvests the enchanted willows and honours an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family’s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, but when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters’ bond but also their lives will be at risk…

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. But in the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money, but soon, Cam will realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will.

When a major league pitcher who’s lost his game moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie, a young widow’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken—and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more.

While picking cherries in the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan, Lara’s three daughters beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar—and maybe snag him as a prom date—even befriend Wes Bennet.

As a world-renowned chef, single dad Archer never planned on moving to a small town, let alone running a pancake restaurant. Iris has never managed to hold down a job for more than a few months. So when it’s suggested that Archer is looking for a live-in nanny, she almost runs in the opposite direction—keeping everything strictly professional should be easy, right?

In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John Green tells Henry Reider’s, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, story woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. Lost and disoriented, he makes a reluctant homecoming back to the bustling Korean American enclave of Fort Lee, his family, and their ever-struggling sushi restaurant that he was set to inherit before he ran away from it all.

In this collection of one novel and three stories, bestselling author Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.

An epidemic spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery—and what’s in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself.

From NYT bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy sensation, a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess forced on an impossible quest with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight.

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.

A real-life historical figure, the woman known as Malinalli was the Nahua interpreter who helped Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés communicate with the native people of Mexico. In this retelling, Malinalli is a young girl kidnapped into slavery by age twelve, fighting to survive the devastation and defend her people’s legacy with her magical powers and support from a close-knit circle of priestesses.

A search and rescue team, including Beverly, a Maine State Game Warden, and Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, races against time when an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine.

When William Waters meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable—with the Padavanos, William experiences a newfound contentment; every moment in their house is filled with loving chaos.

As Michelle Zauner grew up, her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

A desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.

After Katy’s mother passes away, she is faced with embarking on their dream mother-daughter adventure to Positano alone. When she arrives in Italy, Katy’s mother appears—in the flesh, healthy, sun-tanned, and thirty years old. Katy doesn’t understand what is happening, or how—all she can focus on is that she has somehow, impossibly, gotten her mother back.

These classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead Anne Shirley, who comes to stay at Green Gables and wins the hearts of everyone she meets.

A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.

Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to settle in and make friends at boarding school. But when she learns that she’ll never see her beloved father gain, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for hard work and a room in the attic.

”Contrary” Mary Lennox uncovers the secrets of Misselthwaite Manor—a hidden garden and an isolated young boy—and finds they need only a bit of tending to thrive.

Best friends Poppy and Alex have taken one glorious week of vacation together every summer for over a decade—until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since, but Poppy decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together, lay everything on the table, and make it all right.

Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA, and signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed. But due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years, and his family demands to meet his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.

Emily is having the time of her life—she’s in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, but on the last night of the trip, Kristen says the cute backpacker she brought back to their room attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. Even more shocking: The scene is horrifyingly similar to last year’s trip, when another backpacker wound up dead.

For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated.

The Richardsons throw lavish parties, flirt with multiple locals, flaunt their wealth with not one but two yachts, and raise impossible hopes of everyone they meet. When their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island is up in arms.

Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island and Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother.

Cas Morgan has spent years of her life watching Hot Summer, the hit reality dating show that pairs together a bunch of sexy singles in an exotic island location. She never quite thought she’d be a part of it, until her company secures a partnership with the production team behind the show, and Cas is handpicked as a contestant.

A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man Alex has been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

When Phoebe Stone arrives at the Cornwall Inn, she is immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe’s plan―which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

Maddie and Theo have two things in common: Alexa is their best friend and they hate each other. With Alexa’s wedding rapidly approaching, Maddie and Theo both share bridal party responsibilities that require more interaction with each other than they’re comfortable with. But after an “oops, we made a mistake” night together, neither one can stop thinking about the other.

Just weeks away from ditching DC for greener pastures, Solange Pereira is roped into helping her wedding planner cousin on a random couple’s big day. Solange stumbles upon a situation that convinces her the pair isn’t meant to be, so she crashes the wedding to ensure the unsuspecting groom doesn’t make the biggest mistake of his life.

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes—and then someone turns up dead.

It’s been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren’t there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere—the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own.

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers Barbara Van Laar has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents, and this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared.

Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. But she suspects that her great-aunt had a secret that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you; it’s the power you give to other people. Two simple words—Let Them—will set you free.

After Layla Patel’s life falls apart, her father offers her the office upstairs to start her new business and creates a profile on an online dating site to find her a man, without her knowledge. Sam Mehta finds the perfect new office space, but he’s forced to share it with the owner’s beautiful yet infuriating daughter, Layla, her crazy family, and a parade of hopeful suitors.

Josephine Doyle believed in the gorgeous, grumpy golfer, Wells Whitaker, even when he didn’t believe in himself. Imagine her surprise when Wells shows up at her door with a wild proposal: be his new caddy, help him turn his game around, and split the prize money.

Certified hot mess Eve Brown crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard—literally.

Grieving the loss of her best friend, Lenny’s life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy stranger who swears he can help her live again.

When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb, and in his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her.

Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life as a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, spending his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he’s given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist to determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.

After escaping a bad relationship, Jess Cavendish is running and leaving it all behind, carrying just a few treasured belongings in her knapsack. When Gethin Thomas walks through his door one morning, he finds Jess, who’s ready to run again, and they strike a bargain: Jess will help with the restoration, furnishing, and decorating in exchange for room and board.

Inspired by his young daughter’s insatiable curiosity, Tom Vanderbilt embarks on a yearlong quest of learning—purely for the sake of learning. Along the way, he interviews dozens of experts about the fascinating psychology and science behind the benefits of becoming an adult beginner and shows how anyone can get better at beginning again—and, more important, why they should take those first awkward steps.