Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s prompt is:

Best Books I read in 2025

This 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 see if I could see which books coincide or not and maybe choose another ten books from my highlights.  Here goes:

Grave Empire by Richard Swan

A Far Better Thing by HG Parry

My Ex, the AntiChrist by Craig DiLouie

Senseless by Ronald Malfi

It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest

No Women Were Harmed by Heather Mottershead

Paladins Grace by T Kingfisher

Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham

Paved With Good Intentions by Peter McLean

The Last Witch by CJ Cooke