My Favourite Books from 2025
1 January 2026
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Tags: A Tangle of Time, Best of the Best, blog, Books, Fantasy, Greenteeth, King Sorrow, My favourite books for 2025, The Dead Husband Cookbook, The Everlasting, The Knight and the Moth, The Place Where They Buried Your Heart, The Rush, Vianne, Victorian Psycho
Happy New Year everyone.
Every new year I try and choose my favourite books from the year before. It involves some tough decisions because I do read a lot and I’m usually very fortunate to enjoy some fantastic books. This year has been no different (although my reading has been slightly less than normal) and my highlights can be found here. I had so many good books this year that I’m going to post this quick before I change my mind!
Without further ado let’s look at my top ten books from 2025. In no particular order (because I definitely can’t choose a No.1):
The Rush by Beth Lewis
Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Vianne by Joanne Harris
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine
The Hexologists: A Tangle of Time by Josiah Bancroft
The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill
Books and travelling with Lynn 
I love your list, and congrats for narrowing it down to ten. Mine is a *little* longer, lol. I’ve read five of these and all five made my list too (posting next week)
It was difficult narrowing it down to 10, I could have done with more and I did think of sneakily squeezing some more in.
Lynn 😀
Hello Lynn, I am pleased, even though it hasn’t been a normal reading year for you, that you still had plenty of great reads to struggle to wheedle down to your favourites list! Blessings, Jessica 💌
Yes, I read less but there were some absolutely excellent reads.
Lynn 😀
There are 2 titles I’m not familiar with, but the rest of the books on your list are still on my TBR.
I hope you manage to fit some of them in during 2026.
Lynn 😀
Hey, just checked out your anticipated books for 2026 post, some fantastic books on there, sorry, I tried twice to comment but was unable to for some reason. Will try again.
Lynn 😀
I don’t know why the comments section hasn’t been working. I can’t read the ones that were posted. I hope the site fixes this issue.
Thanks for sharing your favorites.
I love seeing everyone’s yearly recaps.
Lynn 😀
I always avidly wait for these best-of-year/ stats-of-year posts, all to add to my growing TBR of course! I am seeing a lot of recommendations for The Rush and The Everlasting, both of which I am yet to read.
Wish you a happy new year 2026, and lots of great reads ahead!!
Yes, me too. And, happy new year to you too, hope 2026 is a great year.
Lynn 😀
It seems like you had an amazing reading year!! 😍 And I am glad to see that The Knight and the Moth is on this list!
I loved so many of my books from 2025 and hope 2026 is just as good – there are certainly a lot of very promising releases on the horizon.
Lynn 😀
[…] is my first Top Ten Tuesday for 2026 so although I’ve actually already covered this topic (here) and also looked at my highlights for 2025 (here), I thought I might take a look at both posts and […]
Im eager to get to most of these. The only reason I havent picked up The Knight & The Moth yet is that I’m hoping I can get hold of the Fairyloot edition. I adore Alix E Harrow and can’t wait to try The Everlasting. And I loved Victorian Psycho, it definitely had a memorable tone of voice to it. I hope 2026 brings even more future favourites your way 🥰
I hope you get to read The Everlasting and the Knight and the Moth – they’re both so good. I’ve just finished my first read for 2026 and loved it so I’m off to a good start already.
Lynn 😀
Thank you 🥰 ooh how wonderful, hopefully its a sign of what your 2026 reads will be like 🤞 what was it?
[…] this is my first update since the new year. I’ve posted a number of posts starting with my favourite books of 2025, my December round up, a Top Ten Tuesday post that gave me the opportunity to come up with another […]