The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Native Tongue

Christopher Trudeau ❤️ loved this book because...

Hiaasen is always very funny. Nice light, enjoyable read.

  • Loved Most

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

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Carl Hiaasen ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Native Tongue as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys.

"Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." —New York Times Book Review

When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Girl With All the Gifts

Christopher Trudeau ❤️ loved this book because...

A good twist on a common idea.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By M.R. Carey ,

Why should I read it?

15 authors picked The Girl With All the Gifts as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'ORIGINAL, THRILLING AND POWERFUL' - Guardian
'HAUNTING, HEARTHBREAKING' - Vogue
The phenomenal million-copy bestseller that is also a BAFTA Award-nominated movie

NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh.

Melanie is a very special girl.

Emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS is the…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Infernal Machine

Christopher Trudeau ❤️ loved this book because...

Interesting time in history that doesn't get much coverage now.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Teach 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Steven Johnson ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON

A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD • A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION

Steven Johnson's engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and…


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Django in Action

By Christopher Trudeau ,

Book cover of Django in Action

What is my book about?

Learn the Django web framework to build sites in Python.

My book recommendation list

Book cover of Native Tongue
Book cover of The Girl With All the Gifts
Book cover of The Infernal Machine

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