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This week’s topic is:
Underrated Books
Suggested by: Leyre @ Read You Leyre
Prompts: What makes a book “underrated”? Did you read any books in 2025 that you think are underrated? Did you read any books with underrated tropes (or micro tropes) or genres? What are some of your favourite “underrated” reads from 2025 and of all time?
What makes a book “underrated”?
Underrated books are the ones that basically haven’t got the attention and recognition it deserves. It could be that you rarely, if ever, see it mentioned on social media or by other book bloggers, influencers or other readers. They can be books by popular authors or from big publishing houses, but they just don’t get the same amount of coverage as other extremely popular titles. It’s always shocking when you come across a story that doesn’t seem very popular, yet it is god-tier mind-blowing and you just can’t fathom that no one else is talking about it! 🤭
Did you read any books in 2025 that you think are underrated?
Yes, I read several books last year that (I believe) are underrated. I’m mostly thinking of 2025 or at least 2024 releases that I didn’t hear a lot of people talking about! Did I miss people talking about these books elsewhere? I didn’t see much about them on the blogosphere at least!
Off the top of my head, these were some of my favourites:
Did you read any books with underrated tropes (or micro tropes) or genres?
This one’s a little bit harder for me to answer because if I’m being very honest, I don’t pay that much attention to the tropes or micro-tropes in a book. Or maybe the better way to say is that I’m not very good at remembering them after I finish reading. It’s awesome coming across a micro-trope that I love when reading but most of the time, it goes straight out of my head afterwards. Sorry, boring answer here! 🫣
What were some of your favourite “underrated” reads from 2025 and of all time?
Since I already covered the underrated reads of 2025 in the answer above, I’m sharing a few backlist books that I think are woefully underrated and deserve so much more love. I’m happy to see that some are starting to get more attention now!
Don’t forget to check out the other bloggers who joined the discussion this week! 👇🏽
Elle @ Unwrapping Words
Yolanda @ Past Midnights
Emma @ Pages of Emma
Raji @ Worlds Unlike Our Own
Abyssal Librarian
Jillian @ Jillian the Bookish Butterfly
If I’ve missed your post this week, don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments, and I’ll add you to this week’s list of community posts ASAP!
Did you read any underrated books in 2025? What are some of your favourite underrated reads? Would any of these also make your list (or are they on your TBR)?
dinipandareads 
Well, I have not read any of these, so I can definitely see that hype for them did not make it to me! XD
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Vicious got a lot of hype when it came out (can’t believe it’s been 12 years since I read it 👵🏻😭) but other than that, I haven’t seen the others being mentioned that much! I did read Words In Deep Blue but I don’t remember anything about it. 😂 I am not Jessica Chen is on my TBR 😊
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