The best books of 2025

This list is part of the best books of 2025.

Join 1,210 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Prospects

❤️ loved this book because...

This is a baseball (sports) romance, and I don't even like baseball.
I loved the characters and relationships. I really enjoyed the reasons for the characters to be rivals and how the romance and relationship built from there.
There was so much good diversity (including: transmasc rep, LGBTQIA+ rep, ADHD and anxiety rep, as well as a side character that was deaf). I literally could not put the book down.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By KT Hoffman ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

'Tenacious, sexy, effervescent, doggedly hopeful, and endlessly charming, with characters to root hard for and an irresistible voice - I completely adored it'
Casey McQuiston, author of Red, White & Royal Blue

'Endearing and tender'
New York Times
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Enemies. Rivals. Teammates.
It's going to be a hell of a season.

Gene Ionescu is content to play in the minor leagues. He's seen teammates get their big breaks, but as the first openly trans man in the world of competitive baseball, he has nearly everything he's ever let himself dream of.

When his former teammate and long-time rival, Luis Estrada,…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Bridge Kingdom

❤️ loved this book because...

I literally could not put this down.
I loved the forbidden romance and well as the world-building. We have some political fantasy elements here as well, so it's not just about the romance.
As soon as I finished, I had to run to the store to grab the sequel because I HAD to know what was going to happen.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Danielle L. Jensen ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Bridge Kingdom as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

DISCOVER THE SPELLBINDING DARK FANTASY TIKTOK SENSATION

'Do not walk to pick up this book. Run' JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT, bestselling author of FROM BLOOD AND ASH

'You will devour it! Badass females, slow burn romance, enemies to lovers . . . Do I even need to say more?' 5***** READER REVIEW

'Enemies to Lovers and full of Angst . . . Loved the book so much I can't put it into words' 5***** READER REVIEW
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Raised as a warrior, Princess Lara has always known her destiny: to destroy her enemy, King Aren.

The Bridge Kingdom where he resides uses…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of A Closed and Common Orbit

❤️ loved this book because...

There is just something about Becky Chambers writing, characters, and world.
This is cozy sci-fi that makes you really feel. I love that all the books feature a queer normative world.
I love everything about it.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Becky Chambers ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked A Closed and Common Orbit as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD AND THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD

'Chambers is simply an exceptional talent' Tor.com

**Winner of the 2017 Prix Julia-Verlanger**

The stand-alone sequel to the award-winning The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. She's never felt so alone.

But she's not alone, not really. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb…


Book cover of The Prospects
Book cover of The Bridge Kingdom
Book cover of A Closed and Common Orbit

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