My 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR! 🏆 & My Absolute Favorite Reads

It's not mind-blowing, but it's just solid. It's a great conclusion, and it's well done.

I thought I wasn't going to like this book, and I'm very happy to have been proven wrong. This book was phenomenal. Great coming of age, great dragon writer, great progression.

Wonderful found family, lots of humor. I just love the series.

When I read Black River Orchard at the beginning of the year by Chuck Wendig, I fell head over heels. This is wonderful, wonderful small town horror that just made Apples super creepy.

this story was phenomenal and what it manages to do within the confines of just a standalone book was absolutely astounding.

I loved this story. I loved it. Loved it. Loved it.

I really enjoyed this. And I'm super glad I finally read Gone South cuz I didn't know if that one was going to be for me, but it 100% was.

And Jane Grimmik is one of the best father figures or mentor characters to ever be put to paper. I loved this story.

Is it the greatest thing ever? No. But it's great popcorn literature and I just had a lot of fun with it.

The ending might be a hair rushed. It's not the scariest thing that's ever been put down on paper, but I'm going to tell you what, it's a page turner and it still holds up after what, like 60, 70 years, this is still a fantastic horror novel.

Oh my gosh, this is my book of the year. It was such a warm and awesome reading experience. I really, really enjoyed this.

It's not the greatest thing I've ever read, but the underlying themes and the story and the humanity that's explored within the keep, also part of the adversary cycle. Really, really cool.

I really enjoyed The Outsider and I didn't I thought it was just going to be a meh book and I ended up absolutely loving that horror story.

And the Dante vow allows him to basically cure a patient at a cost. And he can't stop curing people no matter what it costs him. And it's just so incredibly cool.