The best books of 2025

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

My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Twin Troubles and Chocolate Tortes

Diana Day-Admire ❤️ loved this book because...

This is the latest in the Death by Chocolate series, Sally Berneathy is a wonderful author. Her stories are always fun and fast paced. The Cat- Henry, the Neighbors, the boyfriend and the ex-es 12-year-old...so much to like and then there is chocolate too! What's not to love?

  • Loved Most

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

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Sally Berneathy ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Twin Troubles and Chocolate Tortes as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

An elderly man moves next door to Paula and becomes Zach's new best friend. They play baseball and draw pictures. Paula even likes him.

Then the man falls downstairs and dies.

The next day a woman shows up at Death by Chocolate claiming to be Paula's twin sister, claiming the dead man was their grandfather. This woman has got DNA results, vintage family photos, and a heartwarming backstory...that doesn't quite add up.

Lindsay finds herself knee-deep in secrets, lies, and one very tangled family tree. With Paula skeptical, Zach heartbroken, and the truth hiding somewhere in plain sight, it's up…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Onyx Storm

Diana Day-Admire ❤️ loved this book because...

Rebbecca really tells a great story. I love how she immerses the reader into her words. Each Novel is like a world of its own. She in my opinion is one of the bests

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Writing 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Rebecca Yarros ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Onyx Storm as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT:

Get ready for the breathtaking follow-up to global phenomenons Fourth Wing and Iron Flame from the no. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros.

ARE YOU READY TO BRAVE THE DARK?

After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to know who to trust.

Now Violet must…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Horse

Diana Day-Admire ❤️ loved this book because...

This journey within two different times- wrapped up the life of a HORSE and its care-takers. The underlying themes of bigotry, and the culture of the black person in America made me want to sing this from the top of the mountain tops.... We still have a long way to go!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Teach
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Geraldine Brooks ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

"Brooks' chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling." -The New York Times Book Review

"Horse isn't just an animal story-it's a moving narrative about race and art." -TIME

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Book cover of The Angels Within

What is my book about?

Coming out story-rather Unique....
It’s the ’80s, and being a lesbian in the Midwest isn’t the queerest thing in her life. But falling for a woman who has eight personalities is.
Emily deals with her problems by drinking, but AA meetings are a walk in the park compared to dealing with Emily’s real problem…her dissociative disorder. Dinah has to learn to love all of Emily…all eight of Emily. Instead of “How are you?” when she walks into a room, she must ask, “Who are you?”

Book cover of Twin Troubles and Chocolate Tortes
Book cover of Onyx Storm
Book cover of Horse

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