The best books of 2025

This list is part of the best books of 2025.

Join 1,210 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Inverted

Joy Neal Kidney ❤️ loved this book because...

Transformation stories are some of my favorites. In this spiritual thriller, Kars Dee hopes to avoid personal issues by escaping to Mars, where a haven for displaced believers on Earth is being set up.

It's a compelling transformation tale teeming with science fiction schemes and gadgets.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Craig Matthews ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Inverted.

Surviving The Upside-down World.

Up is down. Back is forward. Last is first. Weak is strong.

Twenty-five years after surviving the collision of worlds in Charity's Fire, the next generation has been trained to lead the underground. Then, the eldest runs away to Mars to escape the demands of leadership, and the second in command turns into a selfish rebel- bent on destruction.

Is everything always falling toward chaos?

As millions on earth flee the grip of the tyrannical Global Union, who will lead the outcasts to freedom? Who will rescue the downtrodden? Who will stand in the gap…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of When Secrets Bloom

Joy Neal Kidney ❤️ loved this book because...

Set in Transylvania in the 1400s, this mesmerizing novel weaves a multilayered story of a healer caught in ancient superstitions and accusations. 

Someone was always watching, choosing allegiances or having them imposed by tradition, lineage, religion, grievances, exclusions from power, or old conflicts.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Patricia Furstenberg ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked When Secrets Bloom as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Transylvania, 1463. A land of fortress cities, whispered heresies, and shadows cast by Vlad Dracula, the man.

Kate Webber, a 28-year-old Saxon healer, has always lived between reverence and suspicion. Her gift with herbs and midwifery makes her indispensable - and dangerous - in Kronstadt, a medieval city where fear rules and women are silenced.

Her marriage to the powerful, secretive Magyar promised safety, but instead bound her voice.

One bitter Advent night, Kate breaks her husband’s command and saves a dying mother and child. Her defiance sparks awe in some, fury in others. The jealous town physician seizes his…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Event Horizon

Joy Neal Kidney ❤️ loved this book because...

A welcome time off to go deer hunting with friends leads Undersheriff Will Diaz instead on a manhunt for a murderer. Not only has the hunted man killed a friend, but the killer is a long-time friend and "blood brother" of Diaz himself.

I wish this series wouldn't end!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By William Ablan ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Fairy tales usually end with "They lived happily ever after." But when murder is involved, "Not everyone lives happily eve rafter." And the act of murder thrusts Undersheriff Will Diaz and his friends into a manhunt through the rugged San Juan Mountains of Conejos County. Trouble is, Will has already lost against a man he thinks of as a brother, yet is committed to bringing to justice.


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Meadowlark Songs

By Joy Neal Kidney , John Busbee (foreword),

Book cover of Meadowlark Songs

What is my book about?

The legacy of a small log church was nurtured through my motherline and woven into the blessing and mystery of inheritance.

Glimpses into these women's lives, along with cameo appearances of the men they married, reveal a legacy of faith and hope while navigating challenging times through seven generations.

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