Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. Here is the topic of the week:

🕵🏻‍♀️ Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025 🕵🏻‍♀️

The full description of this prompt is "New-to-you authors you discovered, new genres you learned you like, new bookish resources you found, friends you made, local bookshops you found, a book club you joined, etc."  so I'm gonna mention a lil bit of each.

1. Healing Fiction ☀

A genre I tried for the first time last year and read 3 books in a row. I discovered that this is a genre I will probably not enjoy. Out of the 3 books I read, I only liked one and that's because it combined A LOT of things I'm usually fond of. I'm more of a fast-pace, plot-driven kinda gal so reading a book that focuses on emotions, inner monologues, psychology etc. gets quite boring. I'm not saying I'll never pick up a healing fiction novel again, but I will be wary and extremelly picky if I do try it at a later time.

2. Manga 💭

Since I'm already talking about genres, I can't not mention manga. Despite only reading one (Spy x Family) I can tell I'll expand my reading even more this year because reading it has been so fun. I'm not that surprised because ever since I was a kid, my house was always full of comic books. My dad is a fan and while I haven't read that many, the ones I did, I throughoutly enjoyed. 😊

*these 3 basically represent all of my emotions reading this 😂

3. Romance as a Subplot 💘

While I have noticed this before, 2025 was the year that confirmed this - I definitely prefer romance as a subplot more than I do actual romance novels. That's why I had far more romantasy novels on my "2025 read list" than contemporary romance books. I think this is connected to what I was talking about with healing fiction - I need strong plot. That's not to say that romance novels don't have plot, they do! It's just that I prefer mine with a bit more drama, stabbings, rival kingdoms at war, ancient artifacts that need to be found, prophecies, declarations of love in the most horrific end-of-world moments etc. 😂

5. Bookstagram/Booktube/Booktok

When it comes to social platforms (I'm talking purely from an audience POV), some are just not for me. I tried following people on Bookstagram, but I found it too boring. Booktok on the other hand is more "dramatic," more "fun" but also more "overwhelming." When a book gets under the spotlight, literally EVERYONE will be talking about it. despite the book maybe not even being that good. Things get overhyped and I've been burned more than once listening to their recomendations. 

Then I remembered the ancient texts and returned to my OG place of all bookish news, recommendations and general inspo - BookTube 😍 I rekindled my love for watching long formed, video bookish content which in turn made me more motivated to write on my blog. I found it to be so relaxing just listening to people talk about books, show their reading journals, present their yearly bookish games and so on. Ahhh BookTube...

Other than these 5 points, my reading habbits have been the same for years. I mostly stick to things I already enjoy and don't venture out of my comfort zone too much. 

💬 Did you have any bookish discoveries in 2025? 💬