The Best Books of 2025

For months, I’ve been reading as many new book releases as I can in search of the best books of 2025. Find out which popular releases are the best new books of 2025.

What are the best books of 2025?

For months, I’ve been reading as many new releases as I can get my hands on so that I can give an informed opinion on the best books of the year.

With the year almost over, I wanted to consider the top books from 2025 so far. You’ll find plenty of beloved authors and some new ones on my best-of-the-year book list.

Remember, this is just my opinion, and I’d love to hear what books you think are the best-of-the-best in the comments below!

Raised by a single mother in Maine, Mia and Cricket Lowe have always been close. While Mia has become the academically minded caretaker, Cricket has thrown herself into become a soccer superstar. As the two sisters grow, they must grapple with their mother’s past and how to balance loyalty to each other with their own wishes and desires as they make impossible choices to pursue their dreams.

I have to give all the stars to this sister drama and not just because I’m coach girls soccer. Spectacular Things kicks off with a bang: Cricket wins a gold medal and Mia has a baby but needs a kidney from Cricket. Suddenly you are thrust into a touching story of two sisters and the sacrifices we make for family. Mia’s dedication is admirable yet she martyrs herself too much (haven’t we all been there). Luckily, Dorey-Stein does an excellent job framing Cricket’s ambition as rooted in insecurity and family expectations. I laughed, I cried, and I was hooked from start to finish.

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Publication Date: 1 July 2025
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Beth and Frank live a happy life on a farm until their world takes a turn when Frank’s brother shoots a dog going after their sheep. Turns out the dog belongs to Beth’s teenage love, Gabriel Wolfe. Suddenly Beth is brought back in Gabriel’s life as she babysits his young son who reminds Beth of her own who tragically died. As tensions, rumors, and jealousies mount, Beth must choose between who she was and who she wants to be.

Broken Country reminds you what literature feels like. Hall brilliantly narrates a tale of broken people who love each other very much and yet still manage to hurt each other – a cheating spouse who still loves her husband, a husband torn by guilt, a messy family full of trauma and love. Hall slowly reveals more and more about Beth’s relationships with Gabriel and Frank, adding great twists and turns to keep you engaged. Broken Country is a beautifully written tale of forgiveness and mercy that is easily a front runner for best book of the year.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Simon & Schuster through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

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Publication Date: 4 March 2025
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Katarina Shaw always knew she was destined to be an Olympic ice skater even if she didn’t have the support or pedigree it usually requires. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid in foster care, Katarina finds the perfect partner to make her dreams – and desires – come true. Ten years after a shocking event ends their Olympic careers and relationship, an unauthorized documentary forces Katarina to break her silence about what happened in this sports romance inspired by Wuthering Heights.

I devoured The Favorites in one sitting but I have to admit, it did remind me why I hate Wuthering Heights so much; I absolutely despise the brooding Heathcliff energy. Yet, Fargo captivates with a story of Kat’s Olympic pursuits full of gripping ups and downs that make for an epic tale. I loved how the documentary excerpts really helped keep the anticipation going, dropping tantalizing hints at what might lay ahead and giving you a better feel for the side characters. More contemporary fiction than sports romance, The Favorites sends you on a dramatic roller coast ride of the obsessive passion to win Olympic gold.

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Publication Date: 14 January 2025
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Once romanticized as the disease of poets, tuberculosis still rages in the world today, mostly in poverty-stricken populations. In 2019, bestselling author John Green struck up a friendship with Henry Reider, a tuberculosis patient in Sierra Leone. Since then, Green has become a major advocate for spreading awareness of this curable, preventable disease that still kills over a million people every year.

Like most people, I only knew John Green from his coming-of-age young adult novels so it was surprising to see him write a bestselling nonfiction book about tuberculosis. Green narrates the audiobook and his fascination with the topic pulls you in and leaves you riveted. Henry’s story humanizes the narrative and helps remind you that tuberculosis is not just ancient history – though the ancient history is captivating when told by as clever of an author as John Green.

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Publication Date: 18 March 2025
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In the 1980s, Joan Goodwin is an unassuming professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University helping her sister to raise her niece. When she sees an ad for the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, Joan finds herself training to be an astronaut with a colorful cast of characters that teach her about the transformative power of love.

Set amidst the competitive wanderlust of the early space program, Taylor Jenkins Reid presents a love story not only of two astronauts falling in love but also of the immense love of an aunt for her niece. Don’t expect too much action or drama from Reid’s latest novel. Atmosphere veers toward the cerebral, concentrating on the characters’ deep thoughts and reflections. Yet, Reid’s extraordinary ability to create fascinating characters draws you into the era and keeps you glued to the pages.

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Publication Date: 3 June 2025
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(3 Weeks) Virginia Roberts Giuffre sent a firestorm through the world when she accused Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Prince Andrew of sex trafficking minors and was the key witness in Epstein and Maxwell’s convictions. In a memoir written before her death by suicide in April 2025, Giuffre details the harrowing events of her life and her escape from Epstein and Maxwell’s trafficking ring. 

Publication Date: 21 October 2025
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A runaway foster kid, eighteen-year-old Louisa has spent her whole life fascinated by a famous painting of a pier with three barely discernable teens sitting on the end. After a chance run-in with the artist just before her death, Louisa inherits the painting from his best friend, Ted. Together, Ted and Louisa set out on a cross-country train journey where Ted tells her the story of one fateful summer where the best friends avoided their chaotic home lives while encouraging the artist to paint something for a competition.

Fredrik Backman sure does know how to tug at the heartstrings and My Friends delivers his characteristic blend of heartwarming stories with lovable characters. Louisa serves as an excellent foil for Ted to tell his backstory while knowing she has experienced similar traumas. Backman has a tendency to paint characters in sweeping generalization and satire; however, he only did that with side characters. This endearing tale of friendship shows the teenagers in their complex lives without tying everything into a tidy and unrealistic bow like many books would.

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Publication Date: 6 May 2025
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Soon after her son’s birth, Cora and her young daughter Maia set out to officially register the baby’s name. Gordon expects that Cora will name the baby after him like generations of his family have done. Yet, Cora is tempted to name the baby Julian and Maia wants to name her brother Bear. The Names is a thoughtful story that showcases how each potential name – and the abusive father’s reaction to each name – changes the family’s trajectory.

Florence Knapp’s The Names is extremely original and I loved watching the parallel storylines unfold. Knapp cleverly doesn’t make one possibility the best and one the worst. Instead, each story has ups and downs shaped by his personality, his choices, and the randomness of life. The larger message of The Names is the legacy of domestic abuse and the lasting trauma it casts over generations.

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Publication Date: 6 May 2025
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In a Kolkata overcome by flooding and famine, Ma is ready to join her husband in Ann Arbor Michigan. On the day she is due to fly to the United States, Ma finds her purse with the immigration papers for her, her father, and her daughter have been stolen. Over the next week, Ma frantically searches for her documents while Majumdar tells you the story of a thief whose desperation to protect his family leads to increasing crimes with unintended consequences.

Publication Date: 14 October 2025
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Written as a fictional “memoir”, The Three Lives of Cate Kay tells the life story of Cate Kay, whose bestselling book trilogy turned into the hit movie franchise of the decade. Cate Kay’s identity has been a closely guarded secret for years even from her literary agent. As a teen, Annie and her best friend dreamed of moving to California to be movie stars. After a tragedy, Annie runs away, living under an assumed name for decades. To regain her life, Annie is finally ready to reclaim her name and make all parts of herself whole once again. 

My first celebrity book club read of the year, and Reese Witherspoon delivered with this riveting character-driven read with a queer love story. Except for the villain, Fagan’s characters were fleshed-out and well-developed and the memoir styling kept the narrative compelling. A thoughtful and endearing read, The Three Lives of Cate Kay highlighted the journey of self-discovery and the harms of always trying to run from your past.

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Publication Date: 7 January 2025
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When his father has a stroke, Kyle McCray reluctantly returns to his hometown to care for him. Two and half years ago, Kyle abruptly left town abandoning his father, his friends, his employees, and Casey, his wife of sixteen years. When asked to coach the struggling middle school hockey team, Kyle finds an chance for redemption. But to stay in town permanently, he must make peace with Casey as the book slowly reveals what caused a love-filled relationship to collapse so suddenly.

Tearjerker alert. I cried several times while reading Lange’s latest novel which, I should add, I devoured in one day. Tracey Lange knows how to tear my heart and then put it back together in just the right ways and I am loving her family dramas. The complicated intertwining of grief and guilt that destroyed their marriage is painfully realistic and hits you like a truck but the hopeful ending provides the catharsis you need to warm your heart back up.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Celadon Books through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

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Publication Date: 14 January 2025
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On the day her cousin Monife tragically dies, Ebun gives birth to a daughter who looks strickingly like her cousin. Her whole life, Eniiyi’s family believes she is the reincarnation of Monife, fated to follow her exact footsteps to a similar end. Add to that, the family is cursed that no man will call the house his home, leaving three generations of brokenhearted women living in the same house in Lagos, Nigeria. When Eniiyi falls in love with a boy she saves from drowning, she struggles against the family’s superstition, determined to break the pattern of trauma.

Publication Date: 4 November 2025
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After months on maternity leave, Camilla is excited and nervous to drop her new baby off at daycare and return to her job as a literary agent. When she awakes, she finds her husband, Luke, is gone with only a note left behind. The police arrive and tell her that Luke is the gunman in a hostage situation in downtown London. Now Camilla must decide how well she actually knows her husband, considering she is the only one who knows what’s on the note.

From the very first page, McAllister throws you into an impossible scenario with a loyal husband is suddenly a hostage taker. I couldn’t help but ponder what I would do in Camilla’s situation. The point of view switches from Camilla to Niall, the hostage negotiator, kept you engaged with the advancing timeline and plenty of clever twists made it very hard to figure out what really happened.

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Publication Date: 25 February 2025
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After her husband’s tragic death, Nina Swann was not looking for love again when she met his old friend Nick Radcliffe. Suddenly she is swept away by the perfect man but her adult daughter Ash feels like there is something dodgy about Nick. Meanwhile, Martha is a florist whose charming husband Alistair has started disappearing for days. As Martha, Nina, and Ash are set on a collision course, they learn the truth that a perfect man can be a perfect liar in this dark twisted thriller.

I was completely hooked to Lisa Jewell’s latest thriller which reminds me of the dark and twisted nature of The Family Upstairs though much slower paced. The constant looming dread as the women continue to fall for this man’s charms kept me gripped to the pages wondering when they will figure out his lies. I was also fascinated at the look inside our con man’s mind as he justifies his actions to himself. Sadly, the consistent tension petered out at the end instead of building to a big finish but I still think Don’t Let Him In is a great summer thriller.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Atria Books through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

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Publication Date: 24 June 2025
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The daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont, Jet Mason has lived a normal, boring life. When she is attacked on Halloween, Jet receives a head injury that doctors say will kill her in the next week. That gives Jet seven days to solve her own murder and she can’t help but look at everyone – her parents, her best friend turned sister-in-law and her ex-boyfriend – in a new light.

Publication Date: 22 July 2025
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Bex was Lizzie’s best friend in college until Bex ghosted her after graduation. Now, Bex has remade herself into Rebecca Somers, a tradwife influencer chronicling her life on a ranch with her husband Grey and their six children. Out of the blue, Bex offers Lizzie an exclusive interview and a trip to a large influencer conference. When Bex disappears and Grey is murdered, Lizzie must dive into the sordid side of the real lives of mom influencers.

Publication Date:15 July 2025
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Sloane Carraway has a tendency to lie; usually just harmless little lies that make her seem a little more interesting. When she sees a hurt little girl at the park, she can’t resist telling the girl’s father she’s a nurse as she pulls out the bee stinger. Soon Sloane finds herself hired as the nanny for the picture perfect New York City power couple. But the deeper Sloane goes into Jay and Violet’s world the more she realizes that she is not the only one lying.

I was rather uncertain about Count My Lies as I was reading it. Sloane is an immature brat and quickly got old listening to her justify her selfish action. Luckily, Stava threw in some nice twists partway through that added intrigue back into the narrative. By the second half, the plot was so complex and twisted that I couldn’t predict where the novel was leading me: to an epic twist that was perfectly satisfying.

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Publication Date: 4 March 2025
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Following her controversial bestselling novel American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins returns with a tale of a  multigenerational Puerto Rican family. In 1980, Rafaela leaves her home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and moves her young family to Missouri where her husband grew up. Not wanting to be like her socially isolated mother, Ruth gives up her language and habits to blend into life as an American teen. Decades later, Ruth’s daughter Daisy returns to Puerto Rico only to be critically injured in a hurricane. Now three generations of women must come to terms with the choices and secrets that have shaped their family.

Jeanine Cummins delights with an immersive multigenerational story of race, identity, and intergenerational trauma. Speak to Me of Home jumps between Rafaela, Ruth and Daisy’s stories and yet the powerful narrative is easy to follow. Caught between Puerto Rico and the United States, as each woman grapples with her sense of belonging and identity, her trauma and impact how her children handle those same questions. Speak to Me of Home is a powerful read about what makes a home and the never-ending search for belonging.

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Publication Date: 13 May 2025
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In the excitement of the Allied victory in Europe during WWII, Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt share an intimate moment that will affect their families for generations to come. Haunted by his inability to fight in the war, Cal lives with his wife Becky, a seer who helps families connect with the dead they have lost. Meanwhile, Margaret’s husband is serving on a Navy cargo ship when she gets word that the unthinkable may have happened. Over the ensuing decades, Cal and Margaret’s secrets haunt their families since nothing can stay secret forever in a small Ohio town.

Buckeye presents an interesting story of two marriages plagued by troubles and poor decisions in this multigenerational historical fiction tale. For the most part, Patrick Ryan does an excellent job creating realistically flawed characters though I thought Margaret’s actions were hard to swallow. Buckeye is a slow-build novel with a lot of focus on the characters’ backgrounds. My only complaint is that I wish I had been able to emotionally connect more with the characters.

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Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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Sixteen year old Junie has been a slave at the Bellereine Plantation in Alabama since her birth. Serving Violet, the white master’s daughter, Junie spends most of her days daydreaming of far off worlds and mourning the death of her sister Minnie. When visitors from New Orleans arrive courting Violet, Junie realizes her whole world might be upended. In desperation, she awakens the ghost of her sister and unburying the plantation’s dark secrets. How much will Junie be willing to risk for love and liberation?

Publication Date: 4 February 2025
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In the last days of the Civil War, cruel master Mr. Harper separated enslaved siblings Coleman and June and took June with him to Mexico where he could keep her his slave. When Coleman receives a letter from Mr. Harper, he thinks his sister’s freedom is finally at hand. But disaster forces Coleman and Mr. Harper’s daughter to flee into the Mexican desert searching for June while being pursued by two desperate men intend on capturing them.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
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Shari Franke is the oldest child of Ruby Franke, a temperamental mother fickle with her love and affection. After her sixth child, Ruby embraced the influencer lifestyle and created the YouTube channel 8Passengers. Growing up with her childhood mined for content, Shari struggled under a mother wanting to use her more than love her. Just as Shari leaves for college, Ruby falls under the thrall of life coach Jodi Hildebrandt and the two go on to commit heinous acts of child abuse all while Shari pleaded with family services to intercede.

One of the first memoirs by a child of an influencer family, The House of My Mother hits on the legal and moral issues about being raised as content. Shari tells her story well (and narrates the audiobook), giving powerful insights into her childhood and the ramifications of her mother’s actions on her family. The whole situation was horrifying and was too much for someone so young to deal with. To make it worst, you have to watch as Shari, finally seeking therapy and desperately trying to save her siblings, gets punished by her church because an older church leader groomed and abused her. I understand why she wrote her memoir now and I would be fascinated to see how her feelings and insights about how religion was used against her and her siblings evolve as she gets older.

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Publication Date: 7 January 2025
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Codenamed Pioneer, Kamala Harris was the first woman to be the Vice President of the United States. After a disastrous debate against Donald Trump, President Joe Biden shocked the nation by announcing that he would no longer seek reelection. In a new memoir, Kamala Harris shares her story of the 107 days she had to put together a presidential bid.

I have to admit, I really wanted Kamala Harris to be President so it was nostalgic listening to her tell about her 107 day campaign while I roamed Washington, D.C. In a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a major historical event, Harris candidly speaks of her presidential run, unafraid to share her opinions about the events that transpired and the politicians involved. 107 Days is a straightforward fast-paced diary detailing the campaign without much backstory or introspection, though Harris is not afraid to end with an “I told you so.” Your opinion of the book will be heavily weighted by your opinion of Harris, however future historians will consider this a gold mine whenever the write about the 2024 Presidential race. My biggest takeaway: Harris was way too loyal to an undeserving Joe Biden who let his ego about his legacy get in the way of what the nation actually needed.

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Publication Date: 23 September 2025
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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson explain how America’s lack of building has created problems in the present day. Regulations meant to solve problems in the 1970s have strangled feasible solutions for 2020s just as government accountability laws have made it too difficult for the government to do anything. Klein and Thompson look at the political, cultural, and economic barriers that need to change so American has a country that protects, preserves while still continuing to build.

Publication Date: 18 March 2025
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Amy Griffin has always been a runner: as a child in Texas, as an athlete at the University of Virginia, and throughout her years of career and motherhood in New York. But her picture-perfect habit hid a darker secret – Amy has always been running from her childhood trauma that she has been hiding even from herself. Griffin’s heartbreaking memoir recounts her journey using psychedelic therapy to recover repressed memories and the limits of the justice system. Griffin also ponders the way women are trained to maintain appearances instead of trusting themselves.

Publication Date: 11 March 2025
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Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams shares a behind-the-scenes look at the politics at leadership at the social media company. Originally Wynn-Williams was thrilled to work closely with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg until she disagreed with the problems that come with a company gaining too much political power. Wynn-Williams’s expose on the carelessness of the social media company comes as Meta has won an injunction against her that will not allow her to promote her memoir.

Publication Date: 11 March 2025
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Rebecca Yarros took the book world by storm with her dragon romantasy book, Fourth Wing. In the third book of the Empyrean series, Violet Sorrengail must venture beyond the failing Aretian wards to recruit allies. Violet needs an army and magic to keep her homeland, Xaden, and the dragons safe. But that means keeping a secret that could risk destroying everything.

One of the most anticipated books of the year, Onyx Storm didn’t fully live up to its hype for me. Yarros kept the same tone as the previous books with steamy sex scenes and a constant stream of action sequences. Unfortunately the storyline – particularly the island encounters –  was underwhelming and didn’t quite capture the magic of the first two books. While unlikely to be anyone’s favorite, fans of the series will still enjoy Onyx Storm and I suspect it will serve as a bridge into the second half of the book series.

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Publication Date: 21 January 2025
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Holland St. James believes in magic and fell in love with the Professor’s mysterious course on Local Legends and Urban Myths in Los Angeles. While on a date, Holland comes across a sign for The Watchman who tells her that she will die at midnight on Halloween unless she finds an ancient magical object, the Alchemical Heart. Suddenly Holland is presented with two different men who both claim they were sent by her twin sister to protect her from the other man. As Holland is thrust into a world of magic, she must decide who to trust in this fun adult debut from the author of Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart.

Stephanie Garber stuns with a Old Hollywood makes a deal with the devil fantasy full of rich art deco vibes. Known for her young adult fantasy, Garber’s adult debut keeps things tame with multiple romantic interests but no steam. The quick fun plot evokes a sense of magical wonder while keeping you guessing who Holland can trust while the Professor’s urban legends slowly build the magical story. The only drawback to Alchemy of Secrets was that I had so many unanswered questions, which is one way to ensure readers come back for the sequel.

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Publication Date: 7 October 2025
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V. E. Schwab writes about immortality, sexuality, and hunger through three different storylines spanning 500 years. In 1532, Maria is tired of being a pawn of men and jumps at an offer from a beautiful stranger to take a different path. In 1827, Charlotte is shipped to London after being caught kissing a girl and takes an invitation from a beautiful widow. In 2019, Alice’s one-night-stand with a beautiful girl turns her into a vampire.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a tale of lesbian vampires in a toxic relationship. Vampires not being my topic of choice, I might not be the best person to review Schwab’s latest book. Frankly, Schwab can write gorgeous prose. Except the novel was all vibes and no plot. The story is so slow that almost nothing happens for the entire book until you get to the super toxic relationship portion. To make sure you don’t miss her thematic point, Schwab insistently beats you over the head with the comparison between vampire’s hunger and the dangers homosexual desire in a world where it’s barred.

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Publication Date: 10 June 2025
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Helena Marino was once a promising necromancer but she is currently a prisoner in a world run by corrupt guild families. All of her Resistance friends and family are dead and Resistance records show that Helena was just a low level healer. But Helena can’t remember the months leading up to her capture and her enemies wonder if she was more than she seems. To break her, they send Helena to one of the powerful necromancers in the world. Can Helena discover his secrets before he discovers her own?

Publication Date: 23 September 2025
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Nine years into her decade of service, Sybil Delling is tired of being a Diviner whose dreams predict the future. Just as her term is almost up, Roderick, a roguish knight appears with no respect for her work. But when diviners begin to disappear, Sybil has no choice but to turn to him for help. For only a heretic like Roderick could defeat a god in this gothic romantasy series.

Publication Date: 20 May 2025
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Alice Law has sacrificed everything to become one of the best in the fields of Magick and to study under Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge. When the professor dies in a magical accident, Alice decides even Hell won’t stop her from her goal. Even though she doesn’t like the man, she needs his academic recommendation. So she sets off to recover him from Hell only Peter Murdoch, her academic rival, as come to the same conclusion and sets off with her.

Publication Date: 26 August 2025
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What Would You Say are The Best Books of 2025?

What books did you enjoy most this year? Did I miss any of the Best Books of 2025 that you loved? As always, let me know in the comments!

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