The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Project Hail Mary

❤️ loved this book because...

Andy Weir has recaptured the spark of scifi delight and thrill from The Martian. A man adrift trying to overcome repeated obstacles with eager science to save the world and a constant page turner.

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    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Andy Weir ,

Why should I read it?

98 authors picked Project Hail Mary as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Pale Lights

❤️ loved this book because...

Very low to the ground fantasy system where getting shot or stabbed is gonna kill you so the magical powers can be pretty limited and still be effective. Each character reads like they're in a different genre which is very fun. The world building of the nations and cultures is fantastically deep.

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    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
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    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By ErraticErrata ,

Why should I read it?

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


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of A Practical Guide to Evil

❤️ loved this book because...

This progression fantasy story is a lot more like a classic epic fantasy. It exists in a world governed by the rules of stories so has a delicious meta thread through it. I love a series about doing good through villainy and what being perceived as a villain does to someone. There are major martial influences to the series with battles mapped from real world equivalents.

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    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By David Verburg ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked A Practical Guide to Evil as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The Empire stands triumphant.For twenty years the Dread Empress has ruled over the lands that were once the Kingdom of Callow, but behind the scenes of this golden age threats to the empire are rising.The nobles of the Wasteland weave their plots behind pleasant smiles while rebellion stirs beyond Peren Woods, for dreams of crowns were buried in shallow graves. The greatest danger of all lies to the west, where the First Prince of Procer has restored order at last: her people sundered, she ponders if a crusade might not be the way to secure her reign.Yet none of this…


Book cover of Project Hail Mary
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Book cover of A Practical Guide to Evil

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