Ranking Every Book I Read in 2025

Without going into great detail about these books and what's in them, these two were great and I will hold them in my heart forever.

Cormarmac McCarthy's writing style is so different from anything else I've ever read or experienced. It's minimal yet complex with its themes and undertones.

I loved it. I loved every bit of it. This was great.

This book was truly great. This stood out above everything else I read the entire year.

To me, in my opinion, I got exhausted. I want to read this again physically and give it my full attention.

Carrie amazed me because it was King's very first book and you could see his style even in his very first book.

I liked it. It was good. In the moment of reading it, it was great because it was exciting and fresh and it just kind of cleansed the palette.

I eventually bought in and I fell in love with the concept of the book and of the series, but I didn't like how it was executed. when I finished Empire of Silence, I felt lukewarm.

I am blown away by how real these characters feel and I haven't laughed this much at a book.

I felt like everyone on the internet praised this book, and for me, I just I didn't like it.

I started reading Something Wicked This Way Comes October 1st. I was looking forward to this, but when I started reading it, my head wasn't in it. I wasn't in the mood for something spooky, scary, or Halloween themed.

I thought Black Tongue Thief was a fun, good read. It took a lot of familiar fantasy tropes and aspects and tweaked it a little bit, gave it a little twist, and I thought Christopher Bulman created something fresh and original with Black Tongue Thief.

No, it was very human. friends traveling together on a hot summer day. It was the perfect precursor to Boy's Life by Robert McCammon.

I really thought I was getting a spooky scary story. But what I got was a much more mature human story.

I think I just didn't get it. The humor, the style, I don't think at that time it wasn't my cup of tea.

It just felt like lyrical poetry. Every single word, every single sentence, it felt like every word had purpose.

I absolutely loved what I read. I got about 60 pages in. I was amazed with the dialogue and how I could just sit there and listen to such crafty and clever dialogue, characters talking back and forth.

I loved it. This is a great book. It's desolate. It's lonely. It's bleak.

Without going into great detail about these books and what's in them, these two were great and I will hold them in my heart forever.

I could have read a thousandpage version of that book. I wish it was longer. True Grit, the book, was way better than the Cohen Brothers version of the movie.