Book-Themed Nails To Get You In The Mood To Tackle Your 2025 TBR

Book lovers are a special brand of people. These are the friends who schedule their weekends and holidays around when they'll be sitting down with a favorite novel for the 10^th time or a new page-turner that they'd been anxiously awaiting since they preordered it a year ago. As Stephen King once said, "Books are a uniquely portable magic." Every book lover knows exactly what he means.

When you love something so much, it's hard to hide it — nor should you want to hide it. Love, in all its forms, is something that should be celebrated. That's why as you get ready to tackle your 2025 TBR list, consider getting book-themed nails to not only get you in the mood, but honor your love of the written word. Whether you're excited to make your way through the best beach reads for summer 2025 or have plans to finally dive into Greta Gerwig's favorite books, reading is the easiest way to be transported to other decades, worlds, and cultures. Because of this, it only makes sense that book-themed nails should be high up on your to-do list.

If you're a lover of books, it's something that should be screamed from the rooftop. After all, not everyone loves to read and there are actually people who don't read at all. In fact, a 2021 survey by Pew Research Center found that almost a quarter of Americans hadn't read a book — either part of one or one in its entirety — in the last year. What a dull life these people must lead! So getting straight to the core of your love with a stack of books on one nail and a declaration on another nail, making for two accent nails, is a subtle, yet cool way to let people know where your heart's devotion resides.

If you love books, but don't want a pile of books or a mini library on your nails, then you can keep the theme by just rocking quills as accent nails. As we've already seen, pastel manicures for short nails are going to be big in spring 2025, so jumping on that trend, but adding a couple French tips and quills will definitely get your point across while keeping your nails looking chic.

When you're really excited about something, it's hard to commit to just one thing. It's kind of like going into a tattoo studio with so many ideas in mind, that you figure you might as well go big and get a sleeve of sticker tattoos, so nothing is left out. If you're feeling that way about your book-themed manicure, then go all in. Don't just get one nail with a pile of books, but a couple nails that showcase books flying about, with an accent nail of a proper bookworm with her nose in a book on another nail. Top off the whole look with a sparkly or shimmery topcoat and you'll have a book-themed manicure that will be impossible to ignore.

If you're the type of person that likes to keep people guessing about what's exactly on your nails, then abstract is definitely the way to go. What's so cool about this manicure, in addition to the fact that it's a throwback to the primary color nail trend of 2024, is that it's initially hard to tell exactly what you're looking at. It's only when you lean in or let your eyes linger, that you realize it's an abstract take on book shelves — it's absolutely a book- and Rothko-loving person's dream mani.

You may have thought that cutesy, demure nails were a thing of 2024, but when something works well and has garnered so many fans, it's just naturally going to spill over into the next year. With the perfect color combination of pink and wine, making it an all-year-round look, and one book-related accent nail on each hand, this is the type of book-themed manicure that keeps things professional, without losing the plot.