The most popular midlife books of 2025

Midlife is when people stop and ask how they got here. In these books a character takes stock of a career, a marriage or a road not taken, and sometimes changes everything. Expect regret, humor and second chances, in novels and in honest nonfiction about the middle years. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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Rooting
Cover of Rooting

Rooting

Sisyphus Lynn

Published 2025

200 pages