The BEST 25 Books on My Shelves! (Must-Reads & All-Time Favorites)

20th Century Ghosts to me, phenomenal. Great work here. You can't go wrong with 20th Century Ghost.

This was the most well-rounded of those books. It felt modern. It had great pacing, great action.

This one was so good. I liked the battles at the end. It reminded me of Aragon but better.

I know this isn't going to be for everybody, but man, like I fell in love. This was darn near my book of the year for 2025.

This book is awesome. It's great combat, great storytelling. I love this.

I will cherish this book for the rest of my life. I can't wait to do a reread of this one because it was phenomenal.

Changos is just phenomenal. I love this book. I don't need to explain why.

This book is phenomenal. So much so that I went and got a signed edition of it.

Dandelion Wine was phenomenal. It's arguably more of a collection of short stories stitched together into a semicohive narrative, but man, Dandelion Wine is still just my favorite.

Great just political fantasy on another world that's kind of Asian inspired. We've got Mara who has lost her entire family due to the events of the Rift War and she's kind of pulled out, right?

This was so entertaining and so wonderful and it caught me by surprise. That's Alton Brown's food for thought.

I love the fact that the main character starts from the bottom and fights his way all the way up to the top. Like, it's just so incredibly cool.

This book is a sword and sorcery masterpiece with just a healthy sprinkling of horror done incredibly well. In fact, cosmic horror done incredibly well. I loved this one.

I really enjoyed Nightw Watch because it's so different from the other what six or seven books in this series. Don't get me wrong, like I like a lot of the City Watch, but I still think I still think a night watch is my favorite.

Regante is a masterclass. And I honestly think that this is the book, if not the book series that inspired The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwyn.

It's my favorite Dirk Pit. It's got a little bit to do with Abraham Lincoln and the through line with Abraham Lincoln is absolutely ridiculous.

I fell in love. The characters were phenomenal.

What we go through and what we discover and what's revealed about the culture and the living and just the way that the society worked in Japan in the 1600s is phenomenal. I loved this book.

I am constantly fighting the urge to just drop whatever I'm doing and do a Superpowers reread because Superpowers is fantastic. It's one of those series that lives in my soul.

The Eye of the World for me, I don't know. It just other than like a tiny little section that deals with Naive and Lean towards the end of the book where I'm like, where did that come from? , this book is borderline flawless for me.

I still think The GOAT is the green mile. Like, it's just so incredibly good. Experiencing Great Depression era, Death Row, John Coffee, all of the stories in here.

This book I recently reread it I think like two years ago and it blew my socks away. I hadn't read it in like 10 to 15 years and it just held up.

This book was just soothing to my soul. Really, really phenomenal. Good stuff here.

Beautiful character fantasy. All of the words in here are incredibly intentional. Everything's planned out across these characters' lives.

I have read this one I think three or four times and to this day it sits with me. It sits in my soul. It's special to me.