The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Wandering Inn

❤️ loved this book because...

Super immersive world.
Characters evolve and grow.
Friendly scenes and grim scenes.
Feels like a true world.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By pirateaba ,

Why should I read it?

31 authors picked The Wandering Inn as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

(This novel is the e-book version of the free web serial. You may read the entire ongoing story at wanderinginn.com free of charge.)

“No killing Goblins.”

So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.

It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Chrysalis

❤️ loved this book because...

LEEEEEROOOOOY

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By RinoZ ,

Why should I read it?

28 authors picked Chrysalis as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Anthony has been reborn! . Placed into the remarkable game-like world of Pangera.. But something seems a little off... What's with these skills? Bite? Dig?. Wait..... He's been reborn as a WHAT?!. Follow Anthony as he attempts to adjust to his new life as an ant in his new Dungeon home. He'll have to learn how to survive, level-up, and grow both himself and his bite-sized colony into a force to be reckoned with.. Experience the start of a hit monster-evolution LitRPG series with nearly 30 Million views on Royal Road, making it one of the most popular web serials…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Land of the Undying Lord

❤️ loved this book because...

Not finished is kinda annoying

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By J.T. Wright ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Land of the Undying Lord as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The Infinite World, ever-changing and ever growing. New nations and races rose and fell almost daily. New Classes were discovered, as old ways were lost. Monsters and beasts roamed the earth and were slain by soldiers and adventurers who were in turn killed by stronger threats. Heroes and villains created new epics and were forgotten when their successors appeared. This was the way of the Infinite World. Summoned into this chaotic place, a young boy with no name and no past must learn to survive. Bound to a master who doesn't care whether he lives or dies, he must become…


Book cover of The Wandering Inn
Book cover of Chrysalis
Book cover of The Land of the Undying Lord

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