The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Cleave the Sparrow

Jonathan Mugan ❤️ loved this book because...

Topical on politics with lots of big popular ideas from science, but the comedy is what’s gold.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Jonathan Katz ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Cleave the Sparrow as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The breakout indie sensation that's unlike anything you've read before...10,000+ COPIES SOLD IN 6 MONTHS • 750+ FIVE-STAR RATINGS • TOP 100 MOST READ ON KINDLE UNLIMITED • 2025 LITERARY TITAN GOLD BOOK AWARD WINNER"Uproariously funny and incredibly prescient."—Hollywood Book Reviews"Daring, unpredictable, and utterly consuming."—San Francisco Book Review"Pushes satire to the absolute limit, and then some."—The Independent Review of BooksWilder Crick, the worst presidential candidate in history, is dead.Now his reluctant apprentice Tom and ruthless campaign manager Shelly must carry out his final order—a bizarre, posthumous search for the true, hidden nature of reality."Some books tell a story," writes Literary…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Earth Abides

Jonathan Mugan ❤️ loved this book because...

It’s about the apocalypse, but also about getting old and watching your world be replaced by one built by the younger generation.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By George R. Stewart ,

Why should I read it?

7 authors picked Earth Abides as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence.

Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life.

A poignant novel about finding a new normal after the upheaval of a global crisis.


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Semiosis

Jonathan Mugan ❤️ loved this book because...

It was interesting to think about plant intelligence.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Teach 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Sue Burke ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and waits.


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

The Curiosity Cycle: Preparing Your Child for the Ongoing Technological Explosion

By Jonathan Mugan ,

Book cover of The Curiosity Cycle: Preparing Your Child for the Ongoing Technological Explosion

What is my book about?

How to prepare you child for the ongoing technological explosion with AI at the center.

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