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Read These Books Before They Hit Your Screens in 2025
Summer is almost here, and it’s that season again when anything feels possible. And for binge watchers, it’s also the perfect chance to study up by diving into the books that are being adapted into movies and TV shows in 2025. Here are some of the thrillers, romances, sci-fi page turners and detective novels coming soon to a screen near you.
My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan
This debut romance novel by Whelan, best known for her work as a beloved audiobook narrator, follows Ella Durran, a 24-year-old Rhodes scholar torn between two lives: a promising career as a political operative in the United States and an intoxicating love affair with her literature professor at Oxford University. The film version stars Sofia Carson (“The Life List”) as Ella and Corey Mylchreest (“Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story”) as her English paramour.
My Oxford Year premieres on Netflix on August 1.
Dubbed “The Adele of Audiobooks” by The New Yorker, Julia Whelan is an actor, audiobook narrator of over 600 titles and award-winning author of My Oxford Year (soon to be a Netflix movie), Thank You For Listening and Casanova LLC. In 2024, she launched her own audio publishing company and app, Audiobrary.com, which seeks to create a sustainable future for human storytelling. Whelan appeared at the 2025 Festival.
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