JANURARY BOOK: The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin By Daniel Brook. New Yorker Best Book of 2025. An illuminating portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld.
FEBURARY BOOK: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a haunting masterpiece of love, obsession, and vengeance—one of the most powerful and enduring novels in English literature. Set against the bleak beauty of the Yorkshire moors, it tells the tumultuous story of Heathcliff, a foundling consumed by passion and revenge, and Catherine Earnshaw, whose love for him defies every social and moral boundary.
MARCH BOOK: Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach. From the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy.
APRIL BOOK: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history.
MAY BOOK: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
JUNE BOOK: White Teeth: A Novel Zadie Smith. The blockbuster debut novel from “a preternaturally gifted” writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time—set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, reveling in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.