2025 Top Reads

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my 2025 top reads.

Hello all. It maybe be the middle of 2026 but I’ve been wanting to post my favorite reads of 2025 so… here we are! As always I try to read 100 books. This isn’t a race, I do this for fun, so if I don’t hit that number or if I do than YAY to me! This year I read a total of 96 books, and let me tell you that 2025 has been an interesting and quite rough reading year.

The books on this list are books that have made some kind of impact on me, I still think about, or I just really enjoyed the story. I love doing this because think it’s nice to go back and remind myself of all the books I’ve read this year.

The good, than bad, and then ehhhh.

So, here they are. All of my favorite reads of 2025.

The Mood & His Tides

by Giana Darling

Little Stranger

by Leigh Rivers

Wild Side

by Elsie Silver

For Wrath and Redemption

by Brit Benson

The Nanny is Off Limits

by Q.B. Tyler

My Dark Fairy Tale

by Giana Darling

The Prodigal Son

by Sara Cate

King of Envy

by Ana Huang

Enigma

by RuNyx

Older

by Jennifer Hartmann

Can’t Get Enough

by Kennedy Ryan

Rose In Chains

by Julie Soto

Bourbon & Lies

by Victoria Wilder

A Wreck, You Make Me

by Saffron A. Kent

death’s obsession

by Avina St. Graves

the defender

by Ana Huang

my dark ever after

by Giana Darling

if Beale street could talk

by James Baldwin

Did you read any of these? What were some books you read that you LOVED this year?

I’m sara

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