Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Best Books I Read in 2025.
I read so many great books this past year! According to StoryGraph, I gave 5-star ratings to 30 books in 2025. It’s too painful to narrow down to just ten… so I’m not! Leaving off books that were re-reads (such as three Tolkien and one Austen!) and a few children’s books, here are 22 of the best books that I read in 2025:
- Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto (review)
- The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage (review)
- My Friends by Fredrik Backman (review)
- Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench (review)
- The Sirens by Emilia Hart (review)
- The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune (review)
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab (review)
- The Jackal’s Mistress by Chris Bohjalian (review)
- When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi (review)
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (review)
- Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire (review)
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (review)
- Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (review)
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (review)
- The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (review)
- Overgrowth by Mira Grant (review)
- It’s a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan (review)
- One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (review)
- The King’s Messenger by Susanna Kearsley (review)
- The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (review)
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (review)
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (review)
Even at 22, that’s ignoring other books I really loved, but for whatever ever reason gave 4.5 or 4.75 stars on StoryGraph. This topic is a lot harder than I expected!
What were you favorite books of 2025? Do we have any in common?
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