You are invited to join Novel Feelings’ 2025 Book Club (a.k.a. season 4 of our podcast) in collaboration with Amplify Bookstore.
Every two months, we will be reading a new book, covering mental health conditions, neurodiversity, and other psychological themes. We will explore tropes, recovery arcs, and character growth, with an intersectional lens.
Six books are planned for the year – one episode every two months. Episodes will also be accessible to people who haven’t read the book yet, as the first half will be spoiler-free.
Follow along by listening to our podcast review episodes, following our Instagram, or joining our FB community group.
About Amplify Bookstore
All of our books for our 2025 book club have been chosen from the Amplify Bookstore catalogue.
We are thrilled to be partnering with Amplify, a bookstore dedicated to books by authors who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour – with the aim to diversify your bookshelf. Learn more about Amplify’s important mission here. You can also listen to our interview with Marina on the podcast.
You can purchase all of our book club picks (subject to availability) in a convenient bundle, or purchase them individually.
Get 10% off the books below – or the whole bundle – with the code NOVELFEELINGS10.
Book Club Calendar
January
For our first book we will be covering Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin – a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives.
March
Based on real-life events, and translated from Bengali, Hospital by Sanya Rushdi is an extraordinary novel that portrays the experience of psychosis and its treatments in an unflinching and understated way, while struggling more broadly with the definition of sanity in our society.
May
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert is a delightful and uplifting romance, featuring a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost–but not quite–dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”.
July
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her – what to call it? – depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.
September
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a source of deep concern to her southern Nigerian family. Young Ada is troubled, prone to violent fits. Born “with one foot on the other side,” she begins to develop separate selves within her as she grows into adulthood. And when she travels to America for college, a traumatic event on campus crystallizes the selves into something powerful.
November
In Olivie Blake’s Alone with You in the Ether, two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change. Everything else, however, is slightly different.
We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the books throughout 2025!
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