Best And Worst Books I Read Every Month Of 2025

I loved Salem's Lot so much. It is the perfect fall novel and with Stephen King's descriptions of fall, it's so immersive and I read this in New England at the time.

And I think I initially gave this like a four stars, but I would definitely change my rating now to probably a 3.25 3.5 because I haven't really thought about it much after I read it. And I just don't think I loved it as much as I thought I did.

It wasn't my favorite book of hers, but I still enjoyed my time. I think I rated this four stars.

And this I actually ended up dnfing. I just wasn't really interested in it, but I did love the description of the book.

So, I loved the start, but it took me a long time to finish this. I just wasn't super interested in it.

I didn't mind the first book. Like, it was okay. I really liked the ending of it, but I think I fell a little bit to all of the hype.

I think one reason why I really liked Big Beautiful Life is because it's not just about this romantic relationship. It's also a messy employment situation where the main character is in a competition with the love interest to write the biography on a woman who has not been seen in years and is the daughter of one of the most scandalous families in the 20th century.

Freaking love those books. , this is one of my favorite books that I've ever read and this is historical fiction. This is such a poignant novel on love and loss.

This was my biggest hangup with the book and unfortunately it was such a difficult barrier that I could not break through. What is the purpose of going to school when you are dead?

Well, then came around the second book, Iron Flame. tried to read it, dnfed it, tried to read it again, like finally kind of trudged through and was so confused.

And this is like everything that I just really look for in a romance novel. I love a swoony second chance romance. I love when the setting is a character in itself and like so charming.

Okay, then I got into Onyx Storm and bored, like bored out of my mind. Then I get to Onyx Storm. This book had me questioning if I had amnesia.

This was a riveting and chilling series, but it's one of those novels that's like so science fiction that it kind of feels real. It's so captivating and futuristic. I 1,000 million% recommend this book.

and real I ended up dnfing. I actually was kind of enjoying the story and the story is super interesting cuz the main character, she has been on Broadway, but she ends up getting cast as the lead role in a Harlem Renaissance biopic.

I already loved Hamitch and it just makes you love his character even more. You already know how evil the capital is, but it just reemphasizes that. And Suzanne Collins, she can't write a bad book.

The worst book that I read was once again, it's not that it was a bad book, , but it definitely was lower on my list, like for books that I read this year, that would be The Executioner 3. This is a young adult novel as well.

I did a book swap with my friend Shaughnessy and this is one of the books she picked for me to read and it was very like fluffy and such a sweet romance. It's also a science romance.

I didn't make it far enough to find out what happened. It was just not for me, unfortunately. So, I gave it a one star cuz I did DNF it.

And for what it's worth, like I think there are some great things that I learned from the book, but also I don't know. I feel like it's kind of advice that you probably have already heard on Tik Tok.

Let me just say, okay, this book was quite slow for me up until the end. I wasn't obsessed with the book as a whole. The plot twist at the end actually I was a gape.

This book was so beautiful. Like, the world building was so immersive. This book is what made me realize that I just cannot give a book five stars unless it has incredible just impeccable character work.

The best book that I read in September happens to be one of my favorite books I've ever read, and that would be The 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield. I freaking love this book. I think about it probably every day.

This book took total control of my mind. Next thing I knew, I sit down to read a chapter, two or three, I'm halfway through the book. I don't know what Blake Crouch put in this, but it is addictive.

I put it down because it was also slow and I understand there I get what he was trying to set up. I get like the significance of it but I just don't need to know what's happening. And then I remembered exactly where I was when I picked it back up and flew through it, which was so funny to me because I'm like, you could DNF a book and then the next chapter it could take off.