The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Devils

Mike Cahoon ❤️ loved this book because...

Abercrombie at his most humorous, what’s not to love?

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Joe Abercrombie , Taylor Armstrong (editor) ,

Why should I read it?

4 authors picked The Devils as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller

A brand-new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie, featuring a notorious band of anti-heroes on a delightfully bloody and raucous journey

Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds.

Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends.

Elves…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Shadows Upon Time: The Sun Eater: Book Seven

Mike Cahoon ❤️ loved this book because...

One of the best conclusions to one of the best series I’ve ever read.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Christopher Ruocchio ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Shadows Upon Time as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The seventh and final novel of the galaxy-spanning series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe at last lights the greatest fire humanity has ever seen

Ambitious universe-building combines with intimate character portraits for storytelling on a truly epic scale-for fans of Orson Scott Card, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Patrick Rothfuss, and Jack Campbell

The trumpet sounds.

The end has come at last. After his victory at Vorgossos, Hadrian Marlowe finds himself a fugitive, on the run not only from the Extrasolarians, but from his own people, the Sollan Empire he betrayed-and who betrayed him. Hidden safely…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of East of Eden

Mike Cahoon ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By John Steinbeck ,

Why should I read it?

19 authors picked East of Eden as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamiltons will helplessly replay the fall of Adam and Eve and the murderous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

East of Eden was considered by Steinbeck to be his magnum opus, and its epic scope and memorable characters, exploring universal themes of love and identity, ensure it remains one of America's most enduring novels. This edition features a stunning new cover by renowned…


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The Scion Conspiracy

By Mike Cahoon ,

Book cover of The Scion Conspiracy

What is my book about?

What is The Scion Conspiracy?

During a burgeoning Age of Exploration, a conspiracy of deadly politics and dark magic is abducting children from across the continent for unknown purposes. Disgraced Prince Cassius Roth delves into the tangled web of lies and violence, unprepared for the just how far it stretches.

From an exalted performer to the Gifted son of a merchant sailor, to a notorious outlaw and a hardened conwoman, no one is above being ensnared in the mysterious conclave’s ambitions. But are they only pieces in a greater game or will they rise to orchestrate their own plans?

As the greatest powers in the world fight for control over the New World, alliances shift by the moment and no one’s future is set in stone. The conspiracy weaves its plots and nations are dragged along in its wake, forever defining all that follows in the first installment of this dark fantasy epic.

Book cover of The Devils
Book cover of Shadows Upon Time: The Sun Eater: Book Seven
Book cover of East of Eden

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