The Best Books I Read in 2025

I would also include in this list the sequel which I also read. It's a trilogy and the sequel was called A Demon's Guide to Wing a Witch. And I love them both.

This is hands down the best horror novel I read in 2025. It was so good. It is such an emotionally raw book. It has so much depth and emotion. I thought the pacing was perfect for the story. Like, I couldn't put it down.

I couldn't put it down. It was like being wrapped up in like a high fantasy adventure warm hug with great fun steamy romances, too. And it's just fab.

Or you can pick up book one, two, which is dating Dr. Dell and is also brilliant.

I thought this book just did a phenomenal job of bringing all of that together. It was written really well, very compelling, with a nice human touch, which I really enjoyed. So if you were ever vaguely interested in that period of history or just women's lives historically and historical issues that might affect us today then this is a must read.

This was just such like a fascinating book with so much depth for so few pages. And it was like a book I could not put down.

I couldn't believe how much she packed into this book while still writing something very accessible. I felt with this book, as I have with all of her books, that I could fully absorb the subject matter without any prior knowledge. But I thought it was fantastic.

That is something that this book tackles and looks at in all its intricacies. And I think it's another just really important conversation to us for us to be having.

This one particularly blew me away. There was a real depth to the themes and emotions I guess I connected to or found very compelling. I absolutely loved it.

I particularly loved like the setting and the world building of this book. It's very luscious and it's got that sort of like gothic vibe whilst also being a kind of modern fantasy novel.

I particularly loved Tastes Like Shakar. I didn't expect this book to really blow me away as much as it did. It is so fun to fall in love with characters and really root for their relationship in the way that I did with this book. So yeah, this was an absolute banger.

These are so good. It's just like absolute escapist goodness. Like just utter fun, just utter like feelgood, witty, heartwarming, adventurous fun, and I love these books.

This is very much cozy fantasy romance if you need like a warm hug. And this is the perfect book. It's also hilarious. Like genuinely laugh out loud funny.