the best books I read in 2025 (& what you need to add to your tbr!)

I love it. I would not recommend it to anybody. ... Anyway, one of the best one of the best books that I've read.

This is a silly little romanty that reads like a contemporary romcom but in a fantasy setting... It's really silly. I really enjoy it and I love the tension between the characters...

I absolutely love the series. I do a very slow devour. ... I don't know if there's ever been a more brilliantly told series with characters that are so wellformed.

And so it's about her traveling into this sinister, creepy forest. and I loved it so much. ... very compelling for such a short read.

I read the whole series. It was the first thing that I read in the year, Dungeon Crawler Carl. And then I binged the whole series and it's the best thing that I've ever read.

I'm really sad I don't actually own a copy of Green Teeth because this was brilliant. ... this was so fun. ... And this was great.

I picked this up on a whim in a bookshop because I thought it looked cute. ... I would say this is much more dark than it is cozy. ... and it was really fun.

I ended up loving it. ... Little Women, I get the hype now. I get it.

I'm only counting it as one, but it is the full series, and that is live ship traders. And my favorite was probably the mad ship of them all. ... Robin Hob does a fantastic character design.

I loved Sour Candy by him, so I should have known this was going to be good.

I enjoyed this so much. ... I love I love when fantasy main characters are mothers because it makes everything they do like have such a higher stake to them. ... I'm so excited to continue this...

Would say it's one of the best like little horror books that I've read. Not a lot of gore. Great for anyone who just wants something a little creepy but not too scary.

It's not a fun story actually. It's it's a satire and it's about the minotaur taken out of myth. ... this was a really fascinating read.

I loved The Rise and the Fall of the Dinosaurs, and I finally made it a goal to read the next one, which follows the timeline after the dinosaurs as the mammals were growing.

I loved The Rise and the Fall of the Dinosaurs, and I finally made it a goal to read the next one, which follows the timeline after the dinosaurs as the mammals were growing. ... They're really light and fun in a way.

The Lake of Dead Languages doesn't have that problem. ... I had such a this was it's that got it's got that slow pace, that slow simmer that I like in dark academia, but it's got all the right twists that make you go oh god [ __ ] what? ... I think very overlooked in the dark academia sphere.

This reads a lot like the princess bride, which is brilliant. It is silly. It's goofy, but there's a lot of there's still a lot of stakes at play.

Talk about a crazy thriller. This has you sat and scared within like the first 30 pages. ... It is so intense.