The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of I Have Some Questions for You

Rosemary McCracken ❤️ loved this book because...

Rebecca Makkai explores the moral implications of class, race and misogyny in I Have Some Questions For You, all within a framework of deconstructing an old murder case. It's crime fiction, but so much more.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Rebecca Makkai ,

Why should I read it?

8 authors picked I Have Some Questions for You as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR OPRAH DAILY, TIME, NPR, USA TODAY, BUSTLE, STAR TRIBUNE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND MORE**

'Whip-smart and uncompromising' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

'Quietly riveting' IRISH TIMES

'It's the perfect crime' NEW YORKER

'Impressive and complex' GUARDIAN

'Addictive' OPRAH DAILY

The riveting new novel from the author of The Great Believers, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past: the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the 1995 murder…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Shipwrecked Souls

Rosemary McCracken ❤️ loved this book because...

One of Canada's top crime fiction writers, Barbara Fradkin is a master storyteller, and she has produced another fast-paced thriller with well-drawn characters, and enough twists and turns to keep readers turning pages until the satisfying end.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Barbara Fradkin ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

In the much-anticipated next Inspector Green Mystery, the impetuous Ottawa detective sails headlong into the case of an elderly woman from Ukraine ― a perfect whodunit for fans of Louise Penny and Tana French.

When Anya Kurchenko, a woman recently arrived in Ottawa from Ukraine, is found murdered in an obscure alleyway, the only clue is a scrap of paper in her pocket with the name “Symkha Grunstein” written in three different alphabets. No such person seems to exist. While the police try to trace her past movements, an elderly man named Simon Stone, who lives nearby, is also murdered,…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Bad Juliet

Rosemary McCracken ❤️ loved this book because...

With his historical romance, Bad Juliet, Giles Blunt takes readers to Saranac Lake in upstate New York in 1917, at that time a sanitorium town where tuberculosis patients "took the cure." The story is driven by psychological suspense, as the protagonist, Paul Gascoyne, becomes obsessed with a beautiful patient, and comes to realize what she tells him about herself is a tangle of truth and fiction.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Giles Blunt ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

At a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster.

“Bad Juliet will hold you in its grip from its opening pages, combining the pacing and twists of a thriller with the compelling characterizations and masterful prose of a writer at the top of his form.” ― Nino Ricci, award-winning author of The Origin of Species

Recently jilted by his fiancé, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Riversong

By Rosemary McCracken ,

Book cover of Riversong

What is my book about?

Riversong, Rosemary McCracken's new (2025) mystery is the fifth instalment in the Pat Tierney Mystery Series. Pat's new client, Monika Lentz, appears to live a charmed life. She's beautiful, wealthy, and enjoying a hugely successful career as the celebrity columnist at the Toronto World newspaper. When she confides that she is pregnant, Pat's heart goes out to her, knowing that raising a child alone can be challenging. Soon after her meeting with Pat, Monika fails to make her newspaper column's deadline. She is later found strangled in her home. Matt Ryder, a Toronto World police reporter, is devastated by the news of Monika's murder. He and Pat set out to learn who took this vibrant woman's life--and why.

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