What’s your best book of 2025?

[KilliMonjaro]

I want some books for Christmas and need some brilliant suggestions please?! 🙏

What genre do you enjoy?

Does it have to be books that came out in 2025 or just books we have read this year? I feel like I’ll never read all the books I want to 😭

In case you enjoy a bit of everything, here are a few options: Alchemised, Never the Roses, Mirror Girls, Manhunt, and Delicate Condition. A true mix of genres. Not all came out in 2025.

@TheGodOfSmallPotatoes the number of books ever published is approximately 130 million, if you read one a week your entire life you will have read less than 0.1%!! I feel the exact same, I have a To Be Read mountain, not just a pile!

I’ve mainly read non-fiction this last year, but I did enjoy Vox. The author’s name escapes me I’m afraid.

All the colours of the dark by Chris Whitaker

The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

have you seen this thread?

www.mumsnet.com/talk/what_were_reading/5414578-looking-for-12-books-for-2026

James by Percival Everett.

Broken Country
The Names

The Artist by Lucy Steed.

I second The Names. It’s an amazing read.

Ooo thanks! And thanks for all suggestions - doesn’t have to be strictly published in 2025 ☺️

This is depressing 😭😂

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

A few years old but fantastic book if you’ve not read it.

By far The Hail Mary project by Andy Weir, I didnt want it to end.

Alchemised has probably been my best read this year.

I have enjoyed loads though.

The Jay Kristoff Trilogy Empire of the Damned is my favourite series by far. The last one come out last month

Holly - Stephen King
The Rob Rinder books are good
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Hunting Evil - Chris Carter, really good, although I wish I had know this was a series of books, I would have read in order

The Story of a Heart - Rachel Clarke. I feel it will never leave me

When Cranes Fly South - This is one of those books that will stay with me for a long time.

www.amazon.co.uk/When-Cranes-South-International-Prize-winning/dp/1804995800/ref=asc_df_1804995800?mcid=8fc788496db73ee2b5ee44a2c4142cb5&th=1&psc=1&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=755941949176&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8042499126649576524&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045111&hvtargid=pla-2444451621812&psc=1&hvocijid=8042499126649576524-1804995800-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1

Its brilliant isnt it? Shame he didnt win the Booker for it. Have you read what did win the booker that year? I totally understand why Prophet Song (Paul Lynch) won. But be warned, quite a different book from the Bee Sting.

Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
The House of Doors byTan Twan Eng
The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Street Philosopher by Matthew Plampin
Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Flesh by David Szalay.

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is a wonderful book. One of my favourite reads this year