The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Summer War

Harold Davis ❤️ loved this book because...

Short but will become classic fairytale.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Naomi Novik ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

In this enchanting, poignant novella from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy, a young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her spell.

Celia discovers her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother Argent leaves home. Furious at being left behind, she lashes out, not realising her childish, angry words will suddenly become imbued with the power of prophecy, dooming him to a life without love.

While Argent wanders the world, forced to seek only fame and glory instead…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Leviathan Wakes

Harold Davis ❤️ loved this book because...

Space Opera as it should be!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By James S. A. Corey ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Humanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies. But there are tensions - the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and military clout they wield over the Belt and beyond. Now, when Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Harold Davis 👍 liked this book because...

Learned a great deal about the history and politics of the revolutionary war era; B. Franklin was a practical genius and I enjoyed learning about how he thought.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Teach 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Walter Isaacson ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of its most practical political thinkers. America's first great publicist, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public and polished it for posterity. In this riveting new biography Walter Isaacson provides readers with a full portrait of Franklin's public and private life - his loyal but neglected wife, his bastard son with whom he broke over going to war with England, his endless replacement families and his many amorous, but probably unconsummated, liaisons. But this is not…


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Creative Garden Photography

By Harold Davis ,

Book cover of Creative Garden Photography

What is my book about?

Make great photos of flowers, gardens, landscapes and the beautiful world around us!

Gardens are everywhere, all around us. In this long-awaited guide to garden and flower photography, noted photographer and author Harold Davis tackles the subject of garden photography with an expansive brush. In this book, you’ll find techniques ranging from photographing vast formal gardens to photographing flowers for transparency on a light box. You’ll learn about closeup photography and how to become a better landscape photographer.

Whether you’re photographing tiny flowers or grand landscapes, wandering outside in the garden or bringing the garden indoors, your photography will be enhanced using the many techniques in Creative Garden Photography. Garden photography includes a huge range of photographic styles and technical information that can be applied to almost any kind of photography. In this book, you will learn to use an incredible range of tools from one of the acknowledged modern masters of photography.

• Explore gardens, types of gardens, and how best to photograph them

• Learn about light, light direction and quality, and controlling light in your photography

• Work with your camera and tripod to achieve optimal focus

• Use creative exposures to make beautiful imagery

• Photograph flowers on a light box for transparency

• Learn techniques for creating impressionistic photos

• Master close-up focusing, depth of field, and focus stacking

• Explore complete exposure data and the story behind every photo

“My goal as a photography teacher and writer about photography is to inspire and to help you become the best and most creative photographer and image-maker that you can be.”
—Harold Davis

“Harold Davis’s ethereal floral arrangements have a purity and translucence that borders on the spiritual.”
—Popular Photography Magazine

“Harold Davis is a force of nature—a man of astonishing eclectic skills and accomplishments.”
—Rangefinder Magazine

“Harold Davis’s Creative Photography series is a great way to start a photography library.”
—PhotoFidelity

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