Tier Ranking My Entire 2025 Reading List - Best vs Worst

This is a brilliant memoir, you guys. I think it's an absolutely brilliant memoir.

I liked a lot of aspects of this, but the direction that the author took the characters was uncomfortable for me and I just I didn't want to continue the series after I finished reading it.

this one was fun. I called the ending and I knew like the reveal pretty early on in the book, but that didn't horribly diminish my experience of reading the book itself, which I loved.

I really enjoyed book two quite a bit. You get more of a Mly crew in book two, and you get to see more of this incredibly unique world building and concept with the Tower of Babel.

I think as a as a memoir, as a book, this one was tougher for me because I don't feel like it was written in a very engaging way.

I did enjoy I did enjoy that and it was really fun to be back on the sentient space station with the crew from book one.

Fantastic story concept, amazing writer, and I did not love this book. the themes were so heavy-handed, you guys.

this was not a book for me. what I read in this book does not feel like romance to me. It feels like very toxic just surface level relationships that are heavily based on sexual gratification.

Shauna Lalis is such a good writer. I'm really hoping to continue this trilogy this year because it was truly fantastic.

it was good. I didn't love it as much as volume one, which we'll talk about in a minute. but what an amazing series.

I hated this book. the ending was so incredibly unrealistic and unbelievable and infuriating that I couldn't I was so mad. That book made me so mad.

I was really pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. The first half of this book, S tier, incredible tension, incredible use of horror at a distance.

what an incredibly amazing thriller, like horror thriller. the ending of this book, you guys, I could not put this book down in the last like the last climax of the story.

I did enjoy a lot of aspects of it. It was a quick bingeable read. it was unsettling a bit to read as well.

I actually enjoyed this. I thought it was a good introduction to Hrien as a character. I love the concepts in this series so much, you guys.

absolute S tier memoir. It's phenomenal.

This is a nolla in his Calian Saga series, and I really enjoyed this, you guys. It was a short little bit about a couple of side characters from the main series and takes place chronologically before the events of the main books.

I really enjoyed it. I love the way that Andrew works with faith and religion within fantasy in such a nuanced way as a backdrop to all of the political moving that's going on in the story.

it is cozy. It is really heartwarming. I really enjoyed this. I think that the characters are really sweet, very lovable.

Hunt for Jackals was everything I wanted from the sequel to By Blood by Salt. I absolutely loved this book and it is absolutely going to be our first S tier read of 2025.

This one I did not like at all. I feel like it's going to be a hard pass for me just because it's it's really cool to me that the author was so incredibly young when she wrote it and showed a lot of skill at the age that she wrote this.

phenomenal, amazing book. There were some character moments in book three that will live rentree in my brain forever.

this book is brilliant in terms of the way that the story is structured and layered and the way things are revealed through the story. I'm definitely going to put it up.

Oh, I struggled with this one. I was going in just okay, you guys. that book dragged so bad for me.

It's absolutely beautiful. I love this book so much. It was in my top four reads of 2025, and I just I absolutely love it.

This one was a disappointment for me too, you guys. it at the end of the day reads more like a lecture.

It's well written, but I got so frustrated with this book, you guys. I put down the series after reading it because it did not hook me the way I was hoping it would and it just made me more frustrated than anything else.

This one surprised me. I really had a great time with it. I really enjoyed it a lot.

This one was a disappointment for me. This one was just okay. There were not enough cats in it, you guys.

I had such a good time with this book, especially the second half. I had a horrible time putting it down.

really good book, very solid read. would highly recommend it for anyone who's interested in reading more about that time period.

I enjoyed the first volume quite a lot and I'm looking forward to continuing. It was very interesting and I just I'm very intrigued to see where he's going to go with it.

I liked this one. I didn't like it as much as I have loved her other books. I thought it was okay.

This was a really good solid nolla. I got very emotional at the ending.

It was okay. It was it was a good it was a good nolla. I did find it to drag a little bit.

I loved this book. This was more of a why done it than a who done it kind of murder mystery.

This was such a solid novela, you guys. I really enjoyed this a lot.

I liked it a little bit less than the first time that I read it. I think I'm going to put it in great book, the great book category, because I still love so much about this book and so much of the moments and the characters, but there were some things that really bummed me out rereading it.

This was a disappointment for me. I thought it was just okay. I didn't find it particularly engaging.

I loved this book. I absolutely loved this book. This one was very much what I have been looking for in murder mystery.

I absolutely loved it. We have a very strong focus on Commander Sam Vimes in this book and we do a little bit of time traveling and I loved it so much.

I really enjoyed these. I think that they're quite bingeable and they were the perfect light read for what I was looking for at the time.

I liked better than The River We Remember. I didn't love it as much as a lot of other people I know did. I just thought it was okay. I didn't I didn't love it.

I didn't love this one as much. This one was okay. I didn't like the character work in this one as much.

I really enjoyed it. I thought that the character work was really interesting. The concepts in the world were definitely the star of the show for this one.

There is some amazing the parts with death in them are S tier. absolute S tier. No hesitation, but there's a lot of there's a lot of characters in here that get a lot more screen time that I just didn't care about as much.

one of my favorite prologes that I read in the last couple of years. I wish that the book had been more like the prologue than what it ended up going, the direction it ended up going after that.

that was my book of the year in 2025. What an amazing ending to the series, you guys. Highly recommend.

Son of a Lich is still great. It's still fun. still some great character moments, but I did not like it as much as I enjoyed Orconomics, which was kind of a bummer.

this reminded me how much I love just a straightup well-written adventure fantasy. Really enjoyed it.

I'm still really enjoying the series. I still have a few critiques of it, but overall it's just it's so much fun.

It was okay. Honestly, it was just okay. It was fine.

It was really everything that I was hoping it would be. It felt familiar. It felt comfortable.

I don't understand the point of this book. It kind of character assassinates the main villain in Hunger Games and several other side characters that just it didn't make sense.

it's fascinating and it's a really interesting vengeance story. I do feel like the author took some liberties with animal characters and humanized them a little too much for my taste.

I do think it gets a little bit of a bad rap. I don't think it's all that bad, to be honest. I love the characters.

This is an incredible fantasy that is it almost reads like historical fiction in a way with fantasy elements. phenomenal character work, amazing political intrigue, and man, can this woman write some pros.

I like Harry as a protagonist and I think there are some things in it that are a bit male gazy. I like his writing style. I like the concepts of the world and the way that he's introducing the characters.

this one's fantastic. I loved I'll put it up here in S tier. I love this book.

which I absolutely loved. just loved this book. Loved it. There's some absolute kick butt character moments in this one.

This one was okay. It was It was beautifully written, beautiful concept. I didn't love it.

This one was also in my top books of 2025 and it's an S tier. That was another incredible historical fiction from Lisa C. I absolutely loved it.

this is one of my favorite fantasy books of all time. It was a reread. Five stars. No questions asked.

what a incredibly again raw honest memoir where she talks about her experience with an eating disorder in a way that does not sensationalize. It does not glorify anything, but it is completely open and honest about the mindset, the struggles, the program that she was put into and the good, bad, and the ugly of that.

It was a hard pass for me, you guys. It's not that it was poorly written, and there were sections of that I really enjoyed a lot.

This one was not my favorite. It was okay. He's a very excellent writer, and that was something that I picked up on right away.

I love these characters so much. I love the series. It's one of my favorite indie series. It did feel a little bit more filler than some of the other books in the series, but still really enjoyed it.

This is going in S tier for sure. I think that KJ Parker's atmosphere is masterfully done. He's so good at it.

I absolutely loved this book and I read it with my son this last year and we both just had a phenomenal time reading through this again.

this one is so brilliant and I can understand why people love Guy Gabriel K's pros and character work. Some of the character arcs through this book are just absolutely mind-blowingly beautiful.

It was a little too dark for me. This one this one kind of pushed a boundary for me that I felt very uncomfortable with.

what an amazing book. It ripped my heart out in the best way possible.

It was good. I think she had some really important things to say about it. I didn't love the book, but I thought I thought it was good.

I loved that book, you guys. That's another S tier Terry Patchet for me.

phenomenal book. absolutely incredible read. I think we're going to put it in S tier.

I enjoyed aspects of it, but I did not enjoy it anywhere near as much as previous book, Blood Song. I think it was definitely a step back in character quality, if that makes sense.

I really enjoyed this story. I had a few qualms with it, but overall I had a really good time reading it.

24 Shadow is going to go straight in the hard pass category. I gave this a one star this year. It's so it's not great and I think it's incredibly problematic.

This is just okay. I didn't like the way the young characters were portrayed in this too much. I didn't love it.