The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

The Bewitching

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia ,

Book cover of The Bewitching

Staci Layne Wilson ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Writing 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace
The Bewitching

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia ,

What is this book about?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • BRAM STOKER AWARD FINALIST • Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

“In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s sure hands, every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue and creeping horror.”—Tananarive Due, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Reformatory

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Elle, Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, Library Journal, Crime Reads, She Reads

“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Incidents Around the House

Staci Layne Wilson ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐌 It was slow at times

By Josh Malerman ,

Why should I read it?

5 authors picked Incidents Around the House as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'This book is the monster that lives inside your closet'
- Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: 'Can I go inside your heart?'

When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay.

Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Staci Layne Wilson ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Grady Hendrix ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Witchcraft for Wayward Girls as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

They were never girls, they were witches . . . .

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer…


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Spiders on a Ship

By Staci Layne Wilson ,

Book cover of Spiders on a Ship

What is my book about?

Christopher Webb, the Amazing Spider-Mage, brings his exotic arachnid performers aboard the 1940s-themed Pacific Dream cruise for what should be a week of elegant entertainment. But beneath his stage confidence lies a secret terror—one that makes his career choice both ironic and perilous.

When Christopher catches the eye of Cleo Laveau, the ship’s mysterious psychic medium, their attraction ignites something unexpected. Cleo’s theatrical mysticism hides genuine power, and a moment of jealous rage unleashes forces neither of them understands.

Soon, passengers begin dying in impossible ways. The spiders are changing, multiplying, and coordinating with an intelligence that shouldn’t exist. As the vintage-styled cruise ship transforms into a silk-wrapped nightmare floating in the vast Pacific, the survivors face a horrifying truth: they’re not just fighting individual creatures anymore.

With communications severed and escape routes sealed, Christopher and Cleo must confront what they’ve awakened before it spreads beyond the ship. But some secrets run deeper than performance, some curses can’t be easily broken, and in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there's nowhere left to hide.

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