The best books of 2025

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Busman's Honeymoon

By Dorothy L. Sayers , #13 of The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries series

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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt ❤️ loved this book because...

Because Sayers took a priggish middle-aged British aristocrat (Lord Peter Wimsey), second son of the Duke of Denver, and a dilettante detective, and turned him into the most romantic man in all my reading experience. And finished this transformation by marrying him off to a woman (Harriet Vane) he saved from death by hanging, and had him establish one of the best relationships I have seen modeled in a book.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Character(s)

  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it

  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace
Busman's Honeymoon

By Dorothy L. Sayers ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Busman's Honeymoon as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The thirteenth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer Natasha Cooper - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries.

They plan to have a quiet country honeymoon. Then Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride Harriet Vane find the previous owner's body in the cellar.

Set in a country village seething with secrets and snobbery, this is Dorothy L. Sayers' last full-length detective novel. Variously described as a love story with detective interruptions and a detective story with romantic interruptions, it lives up to both descriptions with style.…

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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

The Other Side of the Moon

By Meriol Trevor ,

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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt ❤️ loved this book because...

It's a children's book, written for a world which we now know doesn't exist, with fully developed societies - a kingdom, and a highly technological but humanly dead underground world - and makes the agonizing choices necessary to get an exploring team from Earth home without endangering the fragile world.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Immersion

  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it

  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down
The Other Side of the Moon

By Meriol Trevor ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Other Side of the Moon as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A new metaphorical take on good versus evil set in outer space that is filled with thought provoking religious allegory.

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My 3rd favorite read in 2025

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By Robert A. Heinlein ,

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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt ❤️ loved this book because...

Heinlein made this book feel real. The development of the moon as a penal colony for Earth has consequences, and the science is still mostly accurate.

The character of the computer that becomes self-aware, and then is lost at the end of the story, after he has become an integral part of the story and the revolution that makes the Moon independent and secure, is heartbreaking: you keep hoping Mike will wake up again and tell one of his clumsy jokes.

There are so many parallels to the American Revolution - and a use of those to free the Lunar society from control by Authority, all updated to a world of 1/6th our gravity - that you cheer for them and suffer alongside.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality

  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it

  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By Robert A. Heinlein ,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In 2075, the Moon is no longer a penal colony. But it is still a prison...

Life isn't easy for the political dissidents and convicts who live in the scattered colonies that make up lunar civilisation. Everything is regulated strictly, efficiently and cheaply by a central supercomputer, HOLMES IV.

When humble technician Mannie O'Kelly-Davis discovers that HOLMES IV has quietly achieved consciousness (and developed a sense of humour), the choice is clear: either report the problem to the authorities... or become friends.

And perhaps overthrow the government while they're at it.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress has been called…

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Pride's Children: Purgatory

By Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt ,

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What is my book about?

Winner of Indies Today’s 2021 Best Contemporary Novel
 
“A flawless literary gem."
 
Can anyone have both fame and love? Andrew O’Connell is Hollywood’s next big leading man, and the rakish Irishman is basking in his newfound celebrity while thirsting for both greater fame and for someone to love.
 
A chance encounter between O’Connell and the reclusive best-selling disabled author Kary Ashe on the set of a New York talk show sparks a deep connection between two people who are both swimming out of their depth.
 
When O’Connell finds himself on the set of his next movie co-starring with reigning Hollywood princess Bianca Doyle near Ashe’s precious sanctuary, he quickly finds himself pulled in two different directions.  While Ashe wonders if she and O’Connell could ever be truly happy, Doyle is scheming to snap him up as a way of cementing her legacy.
 
This complex tale of love, fame, integrity, and betrayal will have you seeing things through the eyes of three powerful, passionate people who can never get all they desire. Told with an intimacy and detail reminiscent of Austen or Dickinson, Pride’s Children: Purgatory is not a book you read—it’s a book you experience.
 
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