The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of You Will Not Kill Our Imagination

J.J. Dupuis ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Saeed Teebi ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked You Will Not Kill Our Imagination as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Northern

J.J. Dupuis ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Jacob McArthur Mooney ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

“The Northern is both a tender-hearted, contemplative coming-of-age novel and adventure-filled road trip story that brings a unique time in sports history to life.” — Zoe Whittall, author of The Fake and The Best Kind of People

“W.P. Kinsella has company: Jacob Mooney has written another classic Canadian novel about baseball.” — Ben Lindbergh, co-host of Effectively Wild and author of The MVP Machine and The Only Rule Is It Has to Work

It is the summer of 1952 and three men — well, one man and two boys — are on a spiritual and commercial mission. Dispatched from Minnesota…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Letters to Kafka

J.J. Dupuis ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Christine Estima ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Letters to Kafka as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenska's torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.

In 1919, Milena Jesenska, a clever and spirited twenty-three-year-old, is trapped in an unhappy marriage to literary critic Ernst Pollak. Since Pollak is unable to support the pair in Vienna's post-war economy, Jesenska must supplement their income by working as a translator. Having previously met her compatriot Franz Kafka in the literary salons of Prague, she writes to him to ask for permission to translate his story "The Stoker" from German to Czech, becoming Kafka's first translator. The letter launches…


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Roanoke Ridge

By J.J. Dupuis ,

Book cover of Roanoke Ridge

What is my book about?

When Bigfoot researcher Professor Berton Sorel goes missing in the temperate rainforest of Roanoke Ridge, Oregon, help is summoned in the form of his former star pupil, Laura Reagan, online science populist and avowed skeptic. But what begins as a simple search and rescue operation takes a drastic turn when a body is discovered — and it isn’t the professor’s.

Caught in the fallout of the suspicious death, perplexed by a sudden wave of Bigfoot sightings, and still desperately searching for Professor Sorel, Reagan reluctantly admits two things: her old mentor was right about there being secrets hidden in Roanoke Ridge, and it’s up to her to uncover them.

Book cover of You Will Not Kill Our Imagination
Book cover of The Northern
Book cover of Letters to Kafka

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