The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Stone and Sky

Fiona Forsyth ❤️ loved this book because...

The combination of humor, fantasy and police procedural is irresistible.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Ben Aaronovitch ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES

"This isn't London. The rules are different up here..."

All Detective Sergeant Peter Grant wanted was a nice holiday up in Scotland.
He'll need one once this is over...

Sea: check.
Sand: some.
Sun: sort of - but that's not the only thing in the sky...

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PRAISE FOR BEN AARONOVITCH & THE RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES:

"Highly entertaining."
SUNDAY EXPRESS

"Charming, witty, exciting."
THE INDEPENDENT

"Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Dead in the Water

Fiona Forsyth ❤️ loved this book because...

The world of Rome is so beautifully drawn in every book by David Wishart.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Writing 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By David Wishart ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Dead in the Water as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Historical crime set in 1st century AD Rome


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of A Schooling in Murder

Fiona Forsyth ❤️ loved this book because...

The premise grabbed me and then the setting in time and place was done so beautifully.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Andrew Taylor ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked A Schooling in Murder as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII

'Ten out of ten' The Times

'A grand piece of work - a triumph and one of Taylor's best' MICK HERRON

'A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant' LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON

'As good as I'd expect from a master of the craft' VAL MCDERMID

'A wonderful, subtle novel, set in a strange, enclosed world. Beautiful writing and a gloriously satisfying ending' ANN CLEEVES

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England, May 1945

Monkshill Park School for Girls…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Death and the Poet

By Fiona Forsyth ,

Book cover of Death and the Poet

What is my book about?

'An absorbing tale of friendship, corruption and murder, shot through with humanity and deep emotion. The remote imperial outpost of Tomis is vividly recreated and Fiona Forsyth’s portrait of the exiled poet Ovid, now joined by his formidable wife Fabia, is a triumph.' R.N. Morris

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