The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Gerald Elias ❤️ loved this book because...

This book was totally nonfiction but read like a page-turning thriller. Amazing!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Michael Finkel ,

Why should I read it?

5 authors picked The Art Thief as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

*The New York Times bestseller*

'Brilliant' - Sunday Times

'Gripping' - Observer

'Thrilling' - Economist

'His crime spree makes for a thrilling read' - The New Yorker

'A breath-taking read, as compelling as a Highsmith novel. I loved it' - Maggie O'Farrell

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The true story of the world's most prolific art thief, who accumulated a collection worth over $1.4 billion. A spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Wood.

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Machines Like Me

Gerald Elias ❤️ loved this book because...

It tells a tale of a dystopian future but set in today's time. Ian McEwan's command of the English language is stunning.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Ian McEwan ,

Why should I read it?

5 authors picked Machines Like Me as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.

Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London—where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence—Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of A Legacy of Spies

Gerald Elias ❤️ loved this book because...

John Le Carre was a master of the thriller genre and this book brought it all together. His use of English is as nuanced as the characters themselves.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By John le Carré ,

Why should I read it?

4 authors picked A Legacy of Spies as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The undisputed master returns with his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years--a #1 New York Times bestseller and ideal holiday gift.

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Murder at the Royal Albert

By Gerald Elias ,

Book cover of Murder at the Royal Albert

What is my book about?

A packed house at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall.

Gustav Mahler’s monumental 6th Symphony, with its three massive hammer strokes of Fate.

The first and the second go by uneventfully. But then, the third!

Will Mahler’s third hammer stroke of Fate claim another victim?

Gerald Elias’s riveting eighth installment of the critically acclaimed Daniel Jacobus mystery series will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Blind, curmudgeonly violinist Jacobus and his devoted companions, Yumi Shinagawa and Nathaniel Williams, join forces with Branwell Small, a questionably trustworthy partner in crime solving, and officious DCI Christopher Mattheson as they follow every baffling twist and turn in a truly classical whodunnit.

Book cover of The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
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