The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Memories of Ice

❤️ loved this book because...

Peak epic fantasy, from plot and characters, to beautiful writing and emotional impact.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Steven Erikson ,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked Memories of Ice as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin.

Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet, the Pannion Seer. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm's Host and the Bridgeburners each now outlawed by the Empress alongside their enemies of old including the grim forces of Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, and his Tiste Andii, and the Rhivi people of the Plains.

But more ancient clans too are gathering. As if…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Illustrated Man

❤️ loved this book because...

Perhaps one of the best SFF anthologies of all time.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Writing 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Ray Bradbury ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked The Illustrated Man as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A classic collection of stories - all told on the skin of a man - from the author of Fahrenheit 451.

If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art...

Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Guards! Guards!

❤️ loved this book because...

Funniest book I've read this year; incredibly witty.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Terry Pratchett ,

Why should I read it?

11 authors picked Guards! Guards! as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

First book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch

'This is one of Pratchett's best books. Hilarious and highly recommended' The Times

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
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'It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other half, and the…


Book cover of Memories of Ice
Book cover of The Illustrated Man
Book cover of Guards! Guards!

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