The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Toward Eternity

❤️ loved this book because...

I love the beginning premise -- teaching an AI to write poetry -- and how that grows and morphs throughout the novel. It tackles big themes, like how technology is changing humanity and the nature of parenthood, and moves through time in a beautiful way.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Anton Hur ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology?

In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The body's cells are entirely replaced with nanites-robot or android cells which not only cure those afflicted but leaves them virtually immortal.

Literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Anita de Monte Laughs Last

❤️ loved this book because...

This book has it all: dual timelines and perspectives, magical realism, ruthless vengeance, conceited men getting their comeuppance. The audiobook narration is also wonderfully gripping.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Xochitl Gonzalez ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Anita de Monte Laughs Last as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A TIME MUST-READ FOR 2024

THE REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR MARCH 2024

'I have goosebumps just talking about this story' REESE WITHERSPOON
'Smart, funny - and furious' MARIE CLAIRE
'Genre-busting ... A clear-eyed deconstruction of skewed value systems' FINANCIAL TIMES

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Who gets to leave a legacy?

1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten - certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Seed Keeper

❤️ loved this book because...

Lush writing, gorgeous plot. Made me want to start a garden of native plants and tend it lovingly.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Writing 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Diane Wilson ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award

A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.

Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster…


Book cover of Toward Eternity
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