The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of We Begin at the End

Matthew Becker ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Chris Whitaker ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked We Begin at the End as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel from the Crime Writers’ Association (UK)
Winner for Best International Crime Fiction from Australian Crime Writers Association
An Instant New York Times Bestseller

“A vibrant, engrossing, unputdownable thriller that packs a serious emotional punch. One of those rare books that surprise you along the way and then linger in your mind long after you have finished it.”
—Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds

Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between.

Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Kill for Me, Kill for You

Matthew Becker ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Steve Cavanagh ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Kill for Me, Kill for You as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Two ordinary women make a deadly pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink in this “unguessable and unputdownable” (Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author) psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn and Alfred Hitchcock.

One dark evening on New York City’s Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, including an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me,…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Quiet Tenant

Matthew Becker ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Clémence Michallon ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked The Quiet Tenant as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'Clemence Michallon has written a classic' James Patterson

'Beautifully written, entirely convincing and relentlessly gripping ... so brilliantly told, with characters so plausible and compelling, that I was hooked until the last word' Sophie Hannah

'Wonderful' Robert Gold

'Gripping' Daily Express

'A brilliant, breathtaking thriller' Abigail Dean, bestselling author of Girl A

Aidan Thomas is a hardworking family man respected by his local town. He's the kind of man who always has a good word for everyone. He's also a kidnapper and serial killer who has murdered eight women. And there's a ninth, a woman he calls Rachel, imprisoned in…


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By Matthew Becker ,

Book cover of Run

What is my book about?

"A fast-paced, well-crafted thriller!"—Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling author

'I LOVE YOU. I JUST NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT.'
When Congressional staffer Ben Walsh receives this cryptic text from his wife he initially doesn’t think much of it.

But while waiting to hear from her again, Ben discovers that the text came an hour before a shooting that occurred along her daily running route. Veronica won’t pick up her phone, and when she doesn’t return home, he knows she is somehow involved.

If she isn’t one of the victims, then where is she, and what did she know?

While Ben searches for his wife, he stumbles upon another violent death, with clear connections to the shooting. The police name Veronica as their main suspect, and when more evidence suggesting his wife’s involvement appears, even Ben has to reconsider what he knows about her.

Unbeknownst to Ben, a killer from Veronica’s past stalks his family, with his own reasons for wanting to find her. What Ben does know is his best chance at saving Veronica, and keeping her out of prison, is finding her and the truth before the police—or this killer—do. But what if the truth is even more deadly than he could imagine?

Book cover of We Begin at the End
Book cover of Kill for Me, Kill for You
Book cover of The Quiet Tenant

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