Here are the 2025 Read to Learn books!
After months and months of research, narrowing down, choosing, searching for the best deals these are the books I’ve chosen:
January - The Anxious Generation examines the rising levels of anxiety and depression among young people.
February - Everyone Who is Gone is Here is an epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border.
March - Water Always Wins is a compelling exploration into the fundamental force shaping our planet and our lives: water.
April - A Day in the Life of Abed Salama untangles the political and personal story of a bus crash on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
May - When We Walk By is a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity.
June - One Nation Under Guns is a story of America’s gun culture, how it has spun out of control, and is now threatening its democracy.
July - What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness, weaving together personal story and reporting.
August - Viral Underclass shows how viral epidemics expose the flaws in the modern American social system in the forms of racism, homophobia, classism, and ableism.
September - As Long As the Grass Grows is the story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history.
October - Care Work shares a powerful exploration of disability justice through a collection of essays.
November - Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories.
December - Viral Justice calls on readers to work towards building a more inclusive world in which all people can thrive, not merely survive.
It was insanely difficult to whittle these summaries down to three-ish lines so, starting tomorrow I will post one book at a time with a full summary so you can get a closer look at these amazing books.
Who’s rea to read to learn?? Have you heard of any of these, read any? Which ones would you like to read together?
Toni Rocchetti is a copy editor helping authors strengthen their narratives, deepen character arcs, and find the story that is already in the draft. She reads 80+ books a year across literary fiction, memoir, and nonfiction — and writes about what she is learning along the way. Work with Toni →
