The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Raising Young Coders

Jeanne Boyarsky ❤️ loved this book because...

I like how Cassandra included ideas for all ages children doing coding projects.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Teach 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Cassandra Chin ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Raising Young Coders as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Introduce your children to programming at an early age and see how nurturing their interest can significantly contribute to their future success. This book offers creative, kid-friendly tools and projects to ignite childhood curiosity, all while confronting early-age gender biases in tech and supplementing the lack of creative and diverse tech curriculum in schools. Parents will explore a range of fun technology projects to share with their kids, sorted by difficulty, suitable for pre-K through pre-teen ages. For example, the Squishy Circuits project shows early learners how to connect wires to play dough to make LED lights shine. Meanwhile, the…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Snowglobe

Jeanne Boyarsky ❤️ loved this book because...

Creative idea, well fleshed out environment and good story

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Soyoung Park , Joungmin Lee Comfort (translator) ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Snowglobe as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 12, 13, 14, and 15.

What is this book about?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking Korean phenomenon that Entertainment Weekly called “The Hunger Games meets Squid Game”—now in English for the first time!

“An immersive and utterly addictive dark dystopian thriller . . . with the eerie, desperate, and exhilarating vibes of Snowpiercer and The Hunger Games.” —Susan Lee, author of Seoulmates

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold—but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart.

**The gorgeous first edition hardcover of Snowglobe features two covers in one (a…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of DevSecOps Adventures

Jeanne Boyarsky ❤️ loved this book because...

I like that Dana added on to Lego and Chocolate with more games and evolution

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Teach 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Dana Pylayeva ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: About this Book Chapter 3: Brief History of DevOps and DevSecOpsChapter 4: What You Will Teach with LEGO and Chocolate SimulationChapter 5: LEGO and Chocolate - Rules of the GameChapter 6: Game Components Chapter 7: Setting the SpaceChapter 8: Know Your Timebox Chapter 9: Be a GamemasterChapter 10: Fear in the Workplace GameChapter 11: Safety in the Workplace Coaching Game Chapter 12: Master Your Debriefing Chapter 13: Key Takeaways Chapter 14: Frequently Asked Questions Chapter 15: Play History and Modifications - It's All About the Feedback! Chapter 16: Kickstaring Transformations with Games - Field StoriesAppendix


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Real-World Java

By Jeanne Boyarsky , Victor Grazi,

Book cover of Real-World Java

What is my book about?

A concise handbook for the most common tools used in modern Java development

Good Java developers learn Java syntax, how to create loops and switches, and can work out a lambda filter stream. But great Java developers need to understand the vast ecosystem of tools and frameworks for collaboration, testing, building, and more.

In Real-World Java®: Helping You Navigate the Java Ecosystem, a team of veteran Java developers delivers a concise and authoritative discussion of the most common frameworks, tools, and techniques used in enterprise Java development shops. The authors provide just enough background and examples to allow you to dive right into the expert guidance on annotations, logging frameworks, observability, performance tuning, testing tools, and collaboration, that real-life commercial Java development typically relies on.

You’ll expand your Java development toolkit with frameworks and utilities like Spring, Git, Prometheus, and Project Lombok. You’ll also discover links to tested, downloadable code examples that demonstrate the skills discussed in the book.

Real-World Java® is the perfect resource for everyone already somewhat comfortable with the language but who wants to familiarize themselves with the tools and frameworks used in contemporary Java software development.

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