[BHS Etree] LIBRARY: Winter Reads 2025

Mon Dec 15 16:41:24 PST 2025

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Winter Reads 2025

Looking for an excellent book to enjoy over winter break for yourself

or someone you love? Here are some of our favorite reads from 2025!

We encourage folks to support our local bookstores, including

Mrs. Dalloways <https://www.mrsdalloways.com/>, Marcus Books
<https://bookshop.org/shop/marcusbooks>, Pegasus Books
<https://www.pegasusbookstore.com/>, Bandung Books
<https://bookshop.org/shop/BandungBooks>, and East Bay Booksellers
<https://www.ebbooksellers.com/>.

Thanks for keeping it Bay!  💖Your BHS Library Team 📚

Our Favorite YA Reads of 2025

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This brilliant YA graphic novel is a love letter to family and all of the
messy complexities they come with, from the acclaimed author of Ephemera: A
Memoir.

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A  prequel set 24 years before The Hunger Games, focusing on the 50th
Hunger Games (the Second Quarter Quell) and a young Haymitch Abernathy.

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An exploration of the pressures of success and the weight of comparison in
our current academic climate.

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The sensational third book about a contemporary fantasy world that blends
Black Girl Magic with secret societies and the legend of King Arthur!

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Sex Education meets Euphoria in this dark contemporary novel that tackles
perfectionism, emotional abuse, and the dark side of social media.

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This graphic novel follows one girl’s journey navigating high school and
her mental health within a traditional South Asian family. Perfect for fans
of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever and Tillie Walden’s Spinning.

[image: image.png]For fans of See You Yesterday, this captivating and
mind-bending second-chance romance explores what it means to love—even
across the multiverse.

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A powerful graphic novel memoir about an awkward preteen who loves all
things geeky but struggles with mental health issues and self-doubt,
perfect for fans of Jerry Craft's New Kid.

Our Adult Recommendations:

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A new genre-defying novel about three women turned into vampires and thrown
into a centuries-long drama of love, immortality, and hunger.

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An American Indian revenge story, captured in the vivid voices of the time
by one of the masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

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We all loved this unputtdownable book, which manages to be a spy thriller,
a workplace comedy, and a gorgeous time-travel romance.

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A moving quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the
historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part.

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We were able to go see the acclaimed local author (and former BHS parent!)
Jeff Chang speak about his powerful new biography of Bruce Lee at Local
Economy <https://www.thelocaleconomy.com/> last month. Grab a copy of Water,
Mirror, Echo
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222904071-water-mirror-echo?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=TOpgYe4Woy&rank=1>
at
East Bay Booksellers or another local book store, and listen to his interview
with Alexis Madrigal on KQED
<https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911272/how-bruce-lee-helped-shape-asian-american-culture>
.

“A cultural biography, both sweeping and intimate, of the legend Bruce Lee,
set against the extraordinary, untold story of the rise of Asian
America—from the author of the award-winning classic Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and
one of the finest culture observers of our era.”

Bonnie Tsui’s gorgeous collection of essays, Why We Swim
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52905471-why-we-swim>, is a forever
favorite among our library staff. We were so excited for her new book On
Muscle, which debuted this Spring, and it did not disappoint! Check
out her interview
with KQED’s Mina Kim here
<https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909641/bonnie-tsui-on-the-science-symbolism-and-strength-of-muscle>
.

“In On Muscle, Bonnie Tsui brings her signature blend of science, culture,
immersive reporting, and personal narrative to examine not just what
muscles are but what they mean to us. Tsui also traces how muscles have
defined beauty—and how they have distorted it—through the ages, and how
they play an essential role in our physical and mental health.”

**Reviews and book covers adapted from book seller websites & GoodReads.

Want to know more about what we’re reading and what’s going on in the BHS
Library?
Check out our Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/berkeleyhighlibrary/>!

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