What Italians read on Kindle: the top books of 2025
In 2025, digital reading in Italy continued to grow in intensity and habits, transforming Kindle into a constant companion: from the first page read as soon as you woke up to late-night marathons, Kindle readers in our country read an average of over 814 million pages per month. This is the central figure of the annual Kindle Year in Reading retrospective, with which Amazon photographs the books and trends that characterized the year just ended.
What emerges are not only the numbers, but also the "rituals". If there is a period in which reading finds more space, it is August, the month in which Italians immerse themselves more in stories, thanks to slower days and free time. And when it comes to schedules, the preference is clear: the evening remains the most popular time to turn on the Kindle, slow down and "travel" to another reality before falling asleep.
On the taste front, 2025 confirms a clear trajectory: romance novels lead preferences, ahead of detective stories, thrillers and literature. Among the most read authors of the year stands out Paolo Pinna Parpaglia, followed by Freida McFadden, much appreciated by those looking for suspense and twists.
As for the titles, the novel that has won over the most readers on Kindle in Italy is "The Hidden Girl" by Lucinda Riley, described as a mix of glamour, love and mystery. Immediately behind, among the most popular books, appear "Ikigai: The Japanese method. Finding the meaning of life to be happy" by Bettina Lemke and "Loves and secrets at the Pumpkin Spice Café" by Laurie Gilmore, confirming a ranking in which emotional fiction and "inspirational" non-fiction coexist.
It's not just a matter of individual bestsellers: in 2025, sagas played a decisive role in reading time. Amazon reports, among the most popular, "Empire" by Anthony Riches and "La Bratva Kuznetsov" by Nicole Fox, two very different series but united by the same effect: once started, it is difficult to stop at the first volume. The bridge between screen and page is also interesting. In 2025, with the arrival of the final season of the series "Summer in Your Eyes" on Prime Video, interest was reflected in books: downloads of the novel grew more than eightfold, demonstrating how adaptations can bring readers back to the original works.
The 20 most featured bestsellers in Kindle reading 2025 (Italy)
Among the titles indicated in the ranking, the following appear (in the list):
- The Hidden Girl (Lucinda Riley),
- Ikigai: The Japanese method. Finding the meaning of life to be happy by Bettina Lemke
- Loves and secrets at the Pumpkin Spice Cafe (Laurie Gilmore),
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton),
- The mystery of Tavolara (Paolo Pinna Parpaglia),
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas),
- Taste Me. Fire and darkness (Chiara Cavini Benedetti),
- Don't lie (Freida McFadden),
- Nemesis: Montfort College (Anna Nicoletto),
Hate at first sight (Paola Chiozza),
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling),
- The perfect holiday (Jeneva Rose),
- Like the bitter orange (Milena Palminteri),
- The Orphanage on the Lake (Daniel G. Miller),
- Healthy cooking for lazy people (Sara Marino),
- One of the family (Freida McFadden),
- Wild Love (Elsie Silver),
- A Secret Only Ours (Kat Sherman),
- The fourth witness (Paolo Pinna Parpaglia),
- Everything you can't say (Kelly Rimmer).
By the editorial staff of Avion Tourism Magazine
Text source: Amazon Press Office
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