The Relix community shares their favorite books of 2025. From music memoirs to fiction, these reader-recommended books defined the year in reading.
Your Favorite Books of 2025: What the Relix Community Read This Year
- 60 Years of The Grateful Dead Experience – Special Relix Softcover Book
- The Music Never Stops: What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Magic Book by Peter Shapiro (Signed)
- The Answer Is Always Yes by Paul Foster | 1995 Merry Prankster Memoir
- Deadheads Zine – Volume One, Issue One by RetroBlakesberg
- Concerts Remembered - Concert Tracking Journal
- The Capitol Theatre Photo Book (Foreword by Phil Lesh)
- Grateful Dead in Egypt Zine – Volume One, Issue One by Retro Photo Archive
- Cronies, A Burlesque: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters & the Grateful Dead Book (Signed by Ken Babbs)
- Dead & Company: Rainbow Full of Sound, 2015-2023, The Touring Years Book
- Just Phil - Phil Lesh Photography Book by Bob Minkin
- Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening Book by Jim Newton
- Sharing the Groove: The Untold Story of the ’90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene That Followed Book by Mike Ayers
- RetroBlakesberg Volume One: The Film Archives Photography Book by Jay Blakesberg
- Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip (Paperback)
- Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection Book
- After All is Said and Done: Taping the Grateful Dead, 1965–1995 Book by Mark A. Rodriguez