POV: we're on the couch talking about my favourite books of 2025
Kick off your shoes and snuggle up on the couch with me as I share the 12 books that earned 5 stars from me in 2025.
We're talking science books that got me super excited about the incredible world around us, art books that had me running into the studio with new ideas coming out of my ears, and a handful of fiction reads that kept me up way past my bedtime.
Grab a cup of tea, get cosy, and prepare your TBR because this vid will have it groaning 😜
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✨THINGS MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO✨
THE BOOKS
Love Me by Marianne Power
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
We Need Your Art by Amy McNee
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Get The Picture by Bianca Bosker
Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple
Funny Weather by Olivia Laing
10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World by Elif Shafak
Maureen Fry and The Angel of The North by Rachel Joyce
Everybody by Olivia Laing
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes
ADDITIONAL BOOKS MENTIONED
Help Me by Marianne Power
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Henessy by Rachel Joyce
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes
OTHER STUFF
Marianne Power on my podcast
Amy McNee on my podcast
The Box nightclub
🌷 ABOUT ZUZU 🌷
Zuzu (aka Elinor Trier) is a neuroqueer AuDHD artist, writer, podcaster, YouTuber, dopamine dealer, and founder of Zuzu’s Haus of Cats, where she creates artwork that celebrates ‘otherness’, reminding you that you're not the 'odd one out', you're 'one of a kind’. Her weekly newsletter is the stuff of legend and has been described as 'a safe space to be exactly who you are'.
Her artwork is in private collections worldwide, and her ideas have been featured in multiple media outlets, including the Nautilus Silver Award-winning book Creatrix: She Who Makes.
She reads ten books a week (the only hint of savant-ism her autism has given her), snorts when she laughs (it’s adorable!), and might actually be a pile of cats in a sparkly trench coat.
Find out more at https://zuzushausofcats.com
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