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What were your favorite reads of 2025?
It’s that time of year again. Impossible for me to pick just one book or even one series as so much depends on my mood. As usual, not all of these were new releases as I regularly read a lot of backlist. However I limited myself to books read for the first time this calendar year.
alphabetically by author, then by release date:
Dragon Fires Everywhere by Hazel Beck Sept 2025 (Witchlore #4)
Beneath the Burning Sea by Amanda Bouchet June 2025 (The Kingmaker Chronicles #5)
It Takes a Psychic by Jayne Castle June 2025 (World of Harmony/Arcane Society #24)
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst July 2025 (The Great Library of Alyssium #2)
The Undertakers by Nicole Glover Nov 2021 (Murder and Magic #2)
The Improvisers by Nicole Glover Nov 2024 (Murder and Magic #3)
Cold Case Discovery by Nicole Helm Feb 2025 (Hudson Sibling Solutions #6)
Dark Mountain Ambush by Nicole Helm Aug 2025 (Western Edge Mystery #2)
Long Lost Winter by Nicole Helm Dec 2025 (Western Edge Mystery #3)
Special Forces K-9 by Julie Miller Feb 2025 (Protectors at K-9 Ranch #3)
The Things Gods Break by Abigail Owen Oct 2025 (The Crucible #2)
Atonement Sky by Nalini Singh July 2025 (Psy/Changeling Trinity #9)
Predator by Rebecca Zanetti Mar 2025 (Stope Packs #4)
Above are my five star reads for the year. Below are some of the ones I rated as B+ that I would also consider favorites.
Honorable Mentions:
Relics of the Wolf by Lindsay Buroker Jan 2025 (Magnetic Magic #2)
Curse of the Wolf by Lindsay Buroker June 2025 (Magnetic Magic #5)
A Mythical Case of Theft by Melissa Erin Jackson May 2025 (Mythical Pet Sitting Mystery #3)
Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz Jan 2025 (The Lost Night Files #3)
Murder on an Irish Farm by Carlene O'Connor Mar 2022 (Irish Village Mystery #8)
Murder at an Irish Chipper by Carlene O'Connor Feb 2024 (Irish Village Mystery #10)
Murder in an Irish Garden by Carlene O'Connor Mar 2025 (Irish Village Mystery #11)
Bonded in Death by JD Robb Feb 2025 (In Death #71)
Crossing Paths by Katie Ruggle May 2025 (Beneath the Wild Sky #2)
Archangel's Ascension by Nalini Singh May 2025 (Guild Hunter #17)
A Kowalski to Count On by Shannon Stacey Feb 2025 (Kowalski Family #11)
You Can Scream by Rebecca Zanetti Dec 2025 (Laurel Snow #5)
My main reading goal for the year was to finish up five separate series I’d started reading years ago and hadn’t kept up with as the remaining books were published. As well as five trilogies or short (4-5 books) series I already owned all the books in. I am slowly chipping away at Mount TBR tackling smaller chunks by series since I completely finished up the large backlists of various authors I still consider favorites prior to 2025 so no longer can pick just one author to concentrate on.
I am behind planning my 2026 books, so hope to spend some time today doing that,
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