Your FAVORITE BOOKS of 2025

Happy Almost 2026! What were your 10 favorite books read this year? Are you going to struggle to get your list down to 10? Are you going to struggle to come up with 10?

Tell us your best reads of the year, and if you're inclined, one line about why they made the list. Our TBR piles will continue to grow!

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Happy list making!

Audio novels in order enjoyed ~

The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives Novel, #1)
by Hisashi Kashiwai

We Three Queens (Royal Spyness Mystery, #18)
by Rhys Bowen

The Maid's Secret (Molly The Maid Mystery, #3)
by Prose Nita

Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
by Asako Yuzuki

Just for the Summer (#3 in a series)
by Abby Jimenez

Dear Miss Lake (Emmy Lake Chronicles, #4)
by AJ Pearce

Framed in Death (In Death/Eve Dallas, #61)
by J. D. Robb

Christmas with the Queen
by Hazel Gaynor

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Non-fiction eBooks ~

107 Days by Kamala Harris
Not My Type: One woman vs. a President by E. Jean Carroll

My Five Favorite Books in 2025

Daughter Of Daring by Mallory O'Meara
Every Day Is A Gift by Tammy Duckworth
Spitfires by Becky Aikman
My Next Breathe by Jeremy Renner
Hick- The Trail Blazing Journalist by Sarah Miller

My ten favourite books of 2025, in the order I read them:

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Promise by Damon Galgut - a tie for the best book of 2025
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese - the other tie for best book of 2025
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

>2 Molly3028: Looks like you read a lot of fun mysteries this year!
>3 JulieLill: I had no idea Jeremy Renner was in an accident. Sounds inspiring!
>4 ahef1963: I loved The Poisonwood Bible and Cutting for Stone! I might need to check out Once Upon a River.

Thank you all for sharing!

My 10 favorite books this year in the order I read them are:

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
North Woods by Daniel Mason - my favorite of the year
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Fireman by Joe Hill
Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Mind the Gap, Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

My favourite eight books this year:

The Names by Florence Knapp
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike
Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro
Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell
Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

My 10 favorite reads of 2025, in order of having read them:

1. The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
2. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
3. The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
4. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
5. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
6. The Best American Short Stories 1995 edited by Jane Smiley
7. Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han
8. The Need for Roots by Simone Weil
9. Mysticism by Simon Critchley
10. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski -- By far the best book of 2025