The 10 Best Books I Read in 2025 🏆

It's fast-paced. It's immersive. It's exciting.

What I really loved about this, outside of the impeccable world building and the fascinating and unique magic system, were the themes that were being explored.

I felt a lot. I loved these. Each volume got five stars and they deserve to be on my top 10 favorites of the year.

I felt a lot. I loved these. Each volume got five stars and they deserve to be on my top 10 favorites of the year.

I felt a lot. I loved these. Each volume got five stars and they deserve to be on my top 10 favorites of the year.

It is a very difficult book to read and very upsetting to read. The content is just inherently horrific, but it is also very beautifully done.

And I have been a fan of Julie Armfield since I read Our Wives Under the Sea.

This is such a heart-wrenching novel. It's a novel that Stephen King wrote based on his own greatest fears as a person, as a human being, and a fear that I think a lot of us share and a level of desperation and devastation that can only come from a few select circumstances.

I found it devastating and gorgeous and relatable and quite clever in its themes and its imagery and the symbolism that is just dripping from every page. I think it is a beautiful book.

And Sula is definitely one of the most completely realized, most effectively drawn, best written characters I have ever read about in my entire life.

I think it is just so beautifully done. It is very well balanced. The pacing is so great.

It is beautifully written. The pros is just absolutely gorgeous. I felt like I was in a trance the entire time I was reading this.

I thought it was beautifully written. I thought the characterization was top tier. It was incredible.