The best books of 2025

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Join 1,210 readers and share your 3 favorite reads of the year.

My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Sunrise at Sunset

Sai Marie Johnson ❤️ loved this book because...

I love vampires, and this is a series that I won and had me instantly hooked. It's safe to say vampires and witches are my favorite mythical montrousities so Jaz's book was a perfect solution to that desire.

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    🥇 Writing 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Jaz Primo ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Sunrise at Sunset as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The Sunset Vampire series was awarded Third Place in the Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Paranormal Series of 2012 by the Paranormal Romance Guild.

*READER BEWARE - WARNING!* If you're easily offended or turned off by: dominant or assertive female figures, primary love-interest characters that are beta males, or non-traditional relationships between men and women, then you should NOT read the Sunset Vampire Series! Everyone Else: You're in for a real treat that's edgy, unique, and highly satisfying. Welcome to the Sunset Vampire Series!

When is a bloodthirsty predator the best protection against a psychotic killer?
When the predator is…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Kindred

Sai Marie Johnson ❤️ loved this book because...

Kindred shocked me, and in both good and bad ways. I knew it was going to be a compelling story, but once I got into it was stunningly surprised by the timeline shifts and various lens scopes it relays. Octavia's a brilliant storyteller.

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    🥇 Originality 🥈 Emotions
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    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Octavia E. Butler ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner

The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”

Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Sai Marie Johnson ❤️ loved this book because...

I read through this voraciously and then read through it again and again.

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    🥇 Teach 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Timothy Snyder ,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked On Tyranny as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

'A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and authoritarianism look like up close' Rachel Maddow

'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer

History does not repeat, but it does instruct.

In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised…


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Embracing His Empire

By Sai Marie Johnson ,

Book cover of Embracing His Empire

What is my book about?

Dive into this romantic adventure with a beautiful blend of historical romance and sci-fantasy elements.

Caecelia of House Servili was born and bred to be a powerful woman with an education and the life
of splendor as a senator's daughter, but when a foreign enemy sieges their estate, killing her family
and abducting her, her entire world changes.

Now the captive of a strong and dominant king from the enemy kingdom, she learns truths about her
past that will challenge everything she imagined for her future. In the process, will she learn to love
the man she was destined to spend her life with?

Find out in this novel full of hidden secrets and enemies-to-lovers energy.

My book recommendation list

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Book cover of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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