The best books of 2025

This list is part of the best books of 2025.

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Ruth Druart ❤️ loved this book because...

Such an original idea, and something I’ve imagined for myself sometimes. What if no one ever remembered you?

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By V. E. Schwab ,

Why should I read it?

25 authors picked The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

"For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality." -Neil Gaiman

A Sunday Times-bestselling, award-nominated genre-defying tour-de-force of Faustian bargains, for fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, and The Sudden Appearance of Hope.

When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she is convinced she's found a loophole-immortality in exchange for her soul. But the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone.

Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-Century…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Maurice and Maralyn

Ruth Druart ❤️ loved this book because...

Loved the excitement and the courage of Maralyn in this true story about an unusual couple who dare do something out of the ordinary.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Sophie Elmhirst ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**
**WINNER OF THE NERO AWARDS GOLD PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR**
**A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR**

An extraordinary true story of shipwreck, survival and love

'An enthralling, engrossing story of survival' Bill Bryson
'An absolute jewel of a book' India Knight
'A gripping tale of adventure' Elizabeth Day
'An extraordinary survival story' Sunday Times

Bored of 1970s suburban life, Maurice and Maralyn plan their escape: sell the house, build a boat, set sail for New Zealand. Then, halfway around the world, their beloved boat is struck by a whale and the pair…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Brooklyn

Ruth Druart ❤️ loved this book because...

The description of the character’s internal turmoil had me hooked. I was there with her.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Colm Toίbίn ,

Why should I read it?

8 authors picked Brooklyn as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan.

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.

Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

While Paris Slept

By Ruth Druart ,

Book cover of While Paris Slept

What is my book about?

Discover Paris during the occupation, and the secret that Sebastian and Charlotte have hidden for nine years. The story of a mother who made the ultimate sacrifice is revealed as the reader switches between Paris, 1944 and San Diego , 1953.

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