The authors of some of 2025’s most beloved books are finally naming their favorite reads of the year.

Taylor Jenkins Reid, R. F. Kuang, S. A. Cosby and more authors whose books were featured on Time magazine’s list of the 100 must-read books of 2025 shared their top releases this year in an Instagram video posted by the outlet’s account on Friday, November 14.

Reid praised Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino, teasing, “It starts out feeling pretty light and fun, but I promise you you have no idea where this story is going.”

Meanwhile, Kuang recommended Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake and All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu, and Cosby endorsed Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.

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Ocean Vuong lauded his fellow Time honoree Bryan Washington’sPalaver, pointing to the themes of “friendship, redemption, care and estrangement between mother and son” as reasons to pick up the novel.

For his part, Washington suggested We Do Not Part by Han Kang.

Lily King was impressed by Virginia Evans’The Correspondent, noting, “I really don’t know how she does it. Even though it is a series of letters, she puts 15 plates in the air. She makes everyone completely suspenseful.”

As for Bolu Babalola, she described her pick, Kennedy Ryan’sCan’t Get Enough, as a “sexy, grown story about surrendering to love.”

Katie Kitamura mentioned Ariana Koch’sOverstaying as “a book that I think has gotten a little bit less attention” than it should have.

Our Last Wild Days by Anna Bailey got Kate Fagan’s stamp of approval as “gritty and wildly underrated,” with Fagan adding that “not enough people read this.”

Finally, Yrsa Daley-Ward recommended her own book The Catch, gushing, “It came out in June, and I was just so happy to have it out in the world.”

Each of the authors included in the Instagram video made Time’s list of the 100 must-read books of 2025: Reid for Atmosphere, Kuang for Katabasis, Cosby for King of Ashes, Vuong for The Emperor of Gladness, Washington for Palaver, King for Heart the Lover, Babalola for Sweet Heat, Kitamura for Audition, Fagan for The Three Lives of Cate Kay and Daley-Ward for The Catch.

The Time roundup also featured notable picks such as Elizabeth Gilbert’sAll the Way to the River, Margaret Atwood’sBook of Lives, Patti Smith’sBread of Angels, Sarah Wynn-Williams’Careless People, Peter Guralnick’sThe Colonel and the King, Zadie Smith’sDead and Alive, Charmaine Wilkerson’sGood Dirt, Amy Odell’sGwyneth, Katie Yee’sMaggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar, Ron Chernow’sMark Twain, Jason Mott’sPeople Like Us, Kevin Wilson’sRun for the Hills, Amy Griffin’sThe Tell, Sarah MacLean’sThese Summer Storms and Charlotte McConaghy’sWild Dark Shore.

This story was originally reported by Parade on Nov 17, 2025, where it first appeared in the News section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.