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I Read 61 Books in 2025 and Here Are the Top 21
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items Maybe this is a small brag about finishing my reading goal for the year +1 but I want to bring you the best of the best
#21
It’s taken me 18 years to read this after it was recommended to me but I think the entire series is worth it and potentially your teenagers new favorite book.
The series opens with a group of girls captured in a van and a gunshot. Things only ge...
Wither book by Lauren DeStefano
#20
This was such a quick read and a super original plot! Ada and her father are healers but they aren’t quite human. People, or Cures, seek their services to relieve you of what ails you but you might have to be cracked open or buried in the ground ...
Follow Me to Ground book by Sue Rainsford
#19
This book feels a little slow and obvious in the beginning but give it 100 pages and it becomes wild. This book follows four women after their company’s CEO suddenly dies. Each of them realizes that their direct boss, Ames, whom they all have wil...
Whisper Network book by Chandler Baker
#18
On the day that Oliver is released from jail, the detective who put him there is there to receive him. Detective Colburn knows that there’s something off about Oliver’s testimony and retires in order to hear his story, off the record of course. W...
If We Were Villains book by M.L. Rio
#17
This seems to start out as a stereotypical haunted house story and ends up somewhere no one could possibly see coming. Noemi is a young socialite who is called to High Place mansion at the request of her cousin who claims she is in danger. It tu...
Mexican Gothic book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
#16
What if you were destined to be evil? And what if the school you’re being trained at is trying to attack you and everyone else in it?
A Deadly Education book by Naomi Novik
#15
What a beautiful memoir of grief, love, and the necessary nuance of mother-daughter relationships.
Crying in H Mart book by Michelle Zauner
#14
I received this book in a drawing for an advanced readers copy. It doesn’t release until July of this year but! I think it’s worth a preorder if you enjoyed the first one
The Woman in Suite 11 book by Ruth Ware
#13
This was such a sleeper hit. You can tell Tim Dorsey wrote this series because of his love of the state of Florida. This is another book starring Serge Storms and his perpetually stoned side kick, Coleman, who drive all over Florida, recounting l...
Naked Came the Florida Man book by Tim Dorsey
#12
Our narrator is deeply insufferable and unfortunately relatable. She’s rich, thin, beautiful, has an interesting love life, and she wants to sleep forever.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation book by Ottessa Moshfegh
#11
This book is a little too realistic for comfort but the world building and characters are fascinating. Things are disappearing. Things as inane as perfume to as impossible as birds. Once they’re gone, they no longer exist and have never existed a...
密やかな結晶 book by Yōko Ogawa
#10
Our main character’s parents have many children and her mother is pregnant again. They can’t take care of her so they pass her off to distant relatives, just for a time. This book is a quick read, and impossibly devastating for how short it is.
Foster book by Claire Keegan
#9
What an incredible series! I recommend reading this and also reading the prequel, Bitter, afterward for some very interesting lore.
Jam lives in a world where they are taught that monsters have been eradicated but when Jam finds her mother’s mos...
Pet book by Akwaeke Emezi
#8
This is one of those books that is immediately associated with a physical feeling of disgust in my head. And that marks a good story. Our main character, Margot, lives with her mother in a remote area of the woods, living off of the land and stray...
The Lamb book by Lucy Rose
#7
If you know me, you know I can’t stop talking about the Finlay Donovan series. It’s definitely a brain candy kind of book but it’s smart, mysterious, and hilarious all at the same time. Finlay is a divorced mother of 2, dating a cop, and in over h...
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead book by Elle Cosimano
#6
Ingrid receives a call from her high school best friend, Mayra, who she idolized, had a complicated relationship, and deserted her for college. Mayra, as if nothing has ever transpired between them, invites Ingrid to her new boyfriend’s house in t...
Mayra: A Novel book by Nicky Gonzalez
#5
I listened to this on audiobook and finished it within hours of starting. It’s one of those YA books that you’ll enjoy as an adult but will really regret not reading when you were a kid.
Blake is the responsible older brother of Quinn, who is a t...
Full Tilt book by Neal Shusterman
#4
I’m not a non fiction person but man I flew through this. Definitely one of the best I read this year!
Ronan Farrow comes across some information he shouldn’t have and NBC initially seems thrilled and ready to run it. And then things change. Ther...
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a... book by Ronan Farrow
#3
I was really shocked at how much I loved this. A teen wakes up in the woods but doesn’t remember anything; not what happened to her, not where she is, not who she is. She’s taken to the local police station where her dad picks her up, or does he?
That's Not My Name book by Megan Lally
#2
I know this is a controversial choice but I adored this book. I understand how it could be triggering for some, so check the trigger warnings before reading, but I do think that those plot points are not irrelevant, as some claim, and drive the st...
Reincarnation Blues book by Michael Poore
#1
Quelle suprise, I picked a Hunger Games novel as my favorite of the year. The truth is that this was predestined, I love this series so much and I really loved the stratification of Haymitch’s personality before the games and Haymitch after. I lov...
Sunrise on the Reaping book by Suzanne Collins