The Blogchatter Book List of 2025: Your place to find the next read
At Blogchatter, we believe the best book recommendations come from the heart of the reading community and that’s exactly how our Book List of 2025 came to life. We wanted a handy reading list, something that had been vetted by other readers. And of course, we wanted books written about India and by Indian authors.
What Is the Blogchatter Book List
It’s more than a list. It’s a crowdsourced collection of book recommendations from passionate readers across our community. In 2025, we had asked you to share your favourite reads published in 2024 and 2025, along with what made those books stand out to you.
And wow, did you deliver!
From 8 diverse genres, we received a staggering number of suggestions, to the tune of 100! The team read through every single entry with joy and growing TBRs, and after careful voting and plenty of literary debates over at least a week, we put together a longlist of 12 titles that best reflected the collective tastes of our reader community.
The Blogchatter Book List of 2025 Longlist
Here are the titles that made it to the longlist:
The Spice Gate by Prashanth Srivatsa
Laxmi Panda by Savie Karnel
Dream Machine by Appupen
Shadow Town by Sreemati Sen
Our bones in your throat by Megha Rao
The Last Knot by Shabir Ahmad Mir
For the love of Apricots by Madhulika Liddle
The Comeback by Annie Zaidi
The Ex Daughters of Tolstoy House by Arunima Tenzin Tara
Ram c/o Anandhi by Akhil P. Dharmajan
The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha
The Bookseller of Mogga by Anand Suspi
And the Winners Were…
After the reading, reviewing and voting, three books emerged as the winners of the Blogchatter Book List of 2025:
For the Love of Apricots by Madhulika Liddle
The Bookseller of Mogga by Anand Suspi
The Ex Daughters of Tolstoy House by Arunima Tenzin Tara
Three very different books, chosen by the readers who had been part of the Book List journey from the beginning.
A Community-Built List, Through and Through
This isn’t just our list, it’s your list. Readers went through the longlist, discovered new books, shared their thoughts through reviews and eventually voted for the books they wanted to see at the top.
The 2025 Book List started with recommendations from our community and ended with three winners chosen by that same community.
If you’re looking for your next read, start with the longlist, pick a title that catches your eye, and tell us what you think once you’re done.
The Book List may have its winners, but the reading doesn’t stop here.
