ranking the 53 books i read in 2025 from WORST to BEST 📖📚🌟 | reading highs, lows, rereads, and more!

This is like my favorite fantasy book, maybe ever. It's hard to say cuz of the books that I'm talking about in this video, but it's just so good.

This was the spontaneous little Christmas romance that I decided to pick up this year, and honestly, one of my more preferred Christmas romances.

I absolutely loved this book. ... We have a woman who we basically follow her journey on becoming an astronaut, and it was so good.

This is another reread that I did and I absolutely loved this.

I loved this book so much. ... it's a book that's about so much more than ice hockey and I loved it.

What I did really like about this book is that all the characters felt relatable in that they were young and they didn't really know who they were.

This was a big disappointment. ... I thought that the writing was really, really beautiful.

This is so much fun. It's vampires. It's multiple timelines, different time periods.

The Conditions of Will is a romance book that combines mystery and fiction, but I just thought that it was balanced so well, and there's enough time to connect with all of the characters, and the romance was so good.

This is my favorite book in the Magnolia Parks universe. I love Daisy as a main character. I love her relationship with Christian and I just love rich person drama.

I really liked it. ... I think unfortunately, what I didn't love about this is this is marketed as like major fantasy romance, and there are very few fantasy elements in here.

I just kept asking myself, "What's the point? Why am I reading this?" It was good. I thought it was interesting.

This is my favorite book in the Throne of Glass series. I loved it so much, and again, read these books.

I would say that the first 90, 80% of this book was literally a five-star read for me, but the last 10% was actually a one, a zero if I could give a zero.

I loved every single second of this memoir. I randomly picked it up from the library and it really has left its mark on me.

I've read The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling not once but twice. I really enjoyed that book, but mostly for the vibes. I didn't think the romance was anything special.

this book was good. Like I appreciated it, and I thought the writing was just so stunning as it always is. There was just too much going on.

I think this is book two. Book two was definitely my favorite out of the whole series.

this book is just the ultimate conclusion to an epic fantasy series, and I love it so much.

this is a witchy, Halloween romance book that I just absolutely loved. I thought the romance was great. I thought the banter was so good.

I read this at the beginning of the year and I am telling you now that I don't really remember a single thing about this book. The main character was completely unmemorable.

I liked it, but it definitely wasn't my favorite in the Magnolia Parks world. I liked the ending that Magnolia and BJ got.

This is definitely my favorite in the Magnolia BJ romances. ... I just loved the progress that was made between Magnolia and BJ.

I thought this was really good, really thought-provoking and you should definitely read this one if you get a chance.

I love Normal People by Sally Rooney. It's one of my favorite books of all time.

Honestly, it has a lot of elements that I usually love on their own. Unfortunately, I don't even quite know what to say about this book. That just didn't do it for me.

I absolutely love most Jenkins Reid's books, but unfortunately, the reason that I did not like this book very much is because of the nature of the love triangle in this story.

This is easily one of my favorite romances of the year. I loved this.

I loved this. I thought it was so good. I loved our main characters.

I have found both of these books decent. Like, they're not my favorite books in the world. They're not my least favorite books in the world.

honestly, I literally could not finish the last, like, I don't know, 50 to 100 pages because of all the micro cheating that was in this book. I just felt like neither of them were very single, regardless of which timeline we were in, and that really frustrated me.

I let all of the voices stop me from finding a five-star read and I loved this book. Highly recommend the Ruthless Vows Divine Rivals duology.

while I did really, really enjoy this book, a lot of people did not have those feelings. I really liked it. It just does not compare in any universe to the books the other books that I've read by Abby Jimenez.

I'm almost inclined to say short story, although technically I do think this is a novel, about the joy of Christmas and while a lot of people really, really love this, I really, really did not. Unfortunately, I found the writing very confusing, very roundabout.

while I enjoyed it, I had a lovely time, this book is a romance with magical realism ... I just think there were certain magical realism elements that weren't perfect.

I thought that it was really well done. I really enjoyed getting Haymitch's backstory.

this is one of the thrillers that I did end up really enjoying this year. Wasn't perfect by any means, but I was so entertained by this book.

I had a decent time while reading this book. My issue is that this book is so incredibly dark to the point where I couldn't sleep.

This is a mystery book that I absolutely loved. ... it's pure mystery.

Lots of jokes, made me smile, made me laugh, made me cry, all of the good things, and this was just sugar-sweet, and I liked it.

It is devastating. It is heartbreaking. It is beautiful.

It was just the perfect mindless summer romance and like again, it's not like anything mind-bogglingly crazy, but I just thought that the main character was so funny and I really liked the guy and the chaos was like just the right amount of chaos.

I liked it a touch more than the other one, but not like that much more.

I loved this book. I thought this was so good.

This is about a sweet man who one day has the surprise of his lifetime waiting for him on his doorstep. It is literary fiction, all about love and discovering who you are and what's the most important thing to you, and this is very wholesome.

I loved listening to this audiobook and she narrates it. So highly recommend the audiobook if you do decide to pick this one up.

I loved this book so much and if you watch my channel, then you would already know that.

I really loved this book. I thought it was so much better than the first one. We get a different romance. We round out the plot. The fantasy picks up.

We'll Always Have Summer was probably my least favorite of the series.

I read this one towards the end of this year, and this was so much better. It is small-town romance, single dad, one of them's famous, really adorable.

while I really love Elsie Silver as a romance author and as someone who can really capture small town vibes and found family, I just don't think this was her best work. I had a difficult time connecting to the characters.