The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Sunrise on the Reaping

Christopher Gorham Calvin ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Suzanne Collins ,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked Sunrise on the Reaping as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 12, 13, 14, and 15.

What is this book about?

"Sunrise on the Reaping is a propulsive, heart-wrenching
addition to The Hunger Games, adding welcome
texture to the cruel world of Panem . This is the project of dystopian
fiction: to shine a light in tyranny's greasiest corners
and show how people - ordinary, determined human beings - might take
it apart" - New York Times

"Collins is an excellent writer, and there are
moments of surprising lyricism . Sunrise on the Reaping contains
enough both to snare new readers and to satisfy the most bloodthirsty
fan" - Guardian

When you've been set up to lose everything you love,
what…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Last Town

Christopher Gorham Calvin ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Blake Crouch ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Last Town as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The final book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade.

What's inside was a nightmare. What's outside is a thousand times worse.

Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed.

But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Christopher Gorham Calvin ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Suzanne Collins ,

Why should I read it?

7 authors picked The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 12, 13, 14, and 15.

What is this book about?

Ambition will fuel him.Competition will drive him.But power has its price.

It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District…


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Shortcake

By Christopher Gorham Calvin ,

Book cover of Shortcake

What is my book about?

A genetically engineered child with no memory of her past. A killer with dreams of destruction. And the fate of a city hanging in the balance.

Amanda and Evan represent the future of human potential. They’ve been genetically engineered to physical and mental perfection. But perfection comes at a price, and when Amanda’s grows too high, she escapes the research facility she calls home, her mind a blank slate to prevent her from ever going back.

But no one can outrun their past forever…

With the truth of her existence nipping at her brain, Amanda finds herself longing for something more. Her innocent world is shattered by life’s harsh realities, by a serial killer hellbent on fulfilling a prophecy of death and devastation, by those from whom she fled years ago, and by the companion she left behind, a companion whose evolution followed a far different course than her own.

Join Amanda as she is thrust into a battle for not only her own destiny, but that of an entire city on the precipice of catastrophe. Shortcake is a gripping techno-thriller about inner discovery, outward resilience, and moral choice, whose explosive climax will leave you breathless!

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Book cover of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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