Well, 2025 has been A Year. And it feels both as if it has lasted a decade and passed in the blink of an eye, or at least these last few months of it did. I don't want to catalogue all the bad things that happened this year, that continue even as the new year approaches. There were good things too—communities coming together to protest and protect each other. I can only hope for better, for good things for us all in 2026.
While my attention span for reading was up and down, as it has been since covid, I did read a lot of really good books in 2025. I had a lot of trouble narrowing down a list—it's my list, so I suppose I could've just kept adding to it, but I wanted to keep it somewhat manageable!
While my attention span for reading was up and down, as it has been since covid, I did read a lot of really good books in 2025. I had a lot of trouble narrowing down a list—it's my list, so I suppose I could've just kept adding to it, but I wanted to keep it somewhat manageable!
Swordcrossed by Freya Marske
The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
Smokescreen by Sam Burns
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
All of Us Murderers by K.J. Charles
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
What are your favorite reads of 2025?
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