RANKING EVERY BOOK I READ IN 2025 (my HATES and LOVES of last year)

I loved it. I thought it was great. Talked about it a lot.

That was one of my favorite non-fictions of this year. All about a boy soldier. It's a true story during the Sierra Leone civil war.

It wasn't my favorite of the year, but what a fantastic American play. I'd say fantastic and highly suggest if you're looking to get into American playwriting and American plays.

So it was great. Great translations. Weird book.

I liked that. It was a good summer book. I will say that.

It made me relive a lot of the emotions that I felt as a young girl and a lot of the stages like the staggering of events that happened to us as young girls or young kids in general, these formative opinions that are formed and that really made me go back and I talked a lot about my childhood and things that I experienced and just made me that made those emotions come out.

The Beasting by Paul Marray I thought was excellent. I loved it. I talked about it a lot.

I liked it a lot more when I first read it and then I've ruminated on it a little bit more and it really didn't stick out to me like I thought it would.

It's a perfect book to read with your mother. And I just kept on thinking that it was going to veer in a direction of absolute sadness, but it kind of doesn't. And I love that.

You want to talk about writing an abhorrent character? This book does it. I think it's a good book.

I couldn't relate to a single character in that book at all. So, it was fine.

I thought this was good. Introduced me to How to Murder Your Life and I'm forever thankful.

Down the Drain by Julia Fox. Excellent. I loved it.

I think I just got a little misplaced in it and I didn't know what I was getting out of it. I think the themes are very on point. I think the themes are very much apparent, maybe almost too much.

Excellent book. If you haven't read it, you need to. You're not going to be disappointed.

There were moments of this that were really flattering for me and I could feel it and I was so viscerally attached to what was being communicated, but there were other moments where I just was thinking, I'm so stupid. I cannot follow this.

Great book. Great book. And I've talked about it before, but some of the absolute best representation of retail work and retail shopping that I've ever read in a book.

Fun. I thought that this was good. Interesting to see how his mind works.

We're putting it excellent books. I don't care. Great.

And this definitely had moments of that, but it felt like it was pushing more into the shock value as opposed to having it there for unnecessary reason.

One of my favorites of the year. I talked about this at length in a couple of videos. Highly, highly suggest.

I did not get along with that book. I just was I don't know if Ishiguru's writing is for me.

Great book. I loved it. And I love craft work.

Not my favorite Ellis. We might get into that.

If you're going through a separation or if you hate your spouse, read that book. Oh my god. that's all about a marriage falling apart.

Have talked about it already as a favorite book of the year. Stunning. Loved it.

I liked it. I read it super fast. It was a great bestseller.

That was an okay book. I really have wanted to get into Tilman's work and I think that was the wrong book to start with.

She has a really strong and distinctive voice and I will give her that. And I do think that she's funny. I do think that she's really clever and I do think that she's talented.

One day, this is all about one day in the life of average Americans and just showing that every single day counts and every single day matters.

I thought this was an excellent book. I loved it and I can't wait to read more of Hartman's books. I just really like that and I think about that all the time and I think it's a romantic sexy.

I kept thinking that Alan Haulinghurst was writing about himself towards the end as opposed to really channeling this fictional character that he created. So, I couldn't get myself out of that.

Oh, come on now. Excellent. H I'm going to put this as great because there's another Patrick Rod and Keef that I think is excellent.

This is an excellent book. I reread it again this year. That's a reread. That's my favorite. Brett Eastston Ellis.

My favorite book of last year. Shut up. Okay, I can't stop talking about it.

Yeah, excellent book. I love that and I think about it all the time.

I'm going to put that as a good book. I like Elizabeth Stout. She just I just want to hug her and I love that she just keeps on bringing the same characters back in and saying I still love you.

The Art Thief by Michael Finkele. Loved it. Loved it.

That's a good book. That's a weird ass book. And I'm going to make another video soon. Hopefully within the next year, talking about like weird books.

Shut up. Excellent book. Excellent book.

I wanted to love it. I was listening to it on audiobook. I couldn't finish it.

Exquisite writing, exquisite character building, exquisite anecdotal stories. Oh my goodness. I knew these characters. I felt these characters. I just didn't understand the direction that it was going in.

Souls of Black Folk, great book.

Heartbreaking, obviously. So sad. It feels very a very great way of just talking about a young person's perspective and just the fear and the confusion of why are they doing this when they don't want to.

I did lose the plot a couple of times and the twist at the end isn't really a momentous twist. again as I imagined that it probably was when it first came out. It doesn't really age as provocatively as it might have wanted to.

The Friend by Sigret Nunees. I thought that was an excellent book.

Oh, this breaks my heart to put this here, but The Ice Palace by Tar Vas was not what I wanted it to be. Not what I wanted it to be.

Every single page is graphic, but there's a lot of good writing in this. And if you've ever been in such an intense and almost like claustrophobic emotional response to somebody, this book pretty much encapsulates it. Excellent book.

The last scene in that is awesome. It's like a shootout. Great boating catastrophe scene.

I think that's great. That's one for the boys. Okay, that is one of Steinbeck's for the boys books.

I just could not get into that book at all. I just could not get into that book. And it's a debut and I really want to support the author, but I just got a little bit lost and I'm so sorry.

There were I still have vivid recollections of what happened in this book. I'm going to put that as I'm going to put that as a good book because you know what? Reflecting on it now, I'm thinking about it still.

I'm going to put it as an okay book just because I think the I think there was a lot of great moments in it. I'm really invested in cults. I'm so fascinated by them.

The only reason that this wasn't on my top favorites of the books this year was because it was a reread.