2025 Favorites

2025 brought another round of great reads for me.

 These are only my absolute favorites of the 218 books I read.   Many of them are newer releases but there are some backlisted gems on here as well!

 IN HORROR

 Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix 

 Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

 Bewitching by Sylvia Moreno Garcia 

 The Unseen by Anita Alborn

 Beneath the Poet's House by Christa Carmen 

 We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough

 IN ROMANCE 

 How to Sell A Romance by Alexa Martin 

 Charming Devil and Ruthless Devotion by Rebecca Kenney

 Fourth Wing, Iron Flame and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

 Gay The Pray Away by Natalie Naudus 

 Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer 

 Say You Remember Me by Abby Jimenez

 

OTHER FICTION

 James by Percival Everett 

 Babel by R F Kuang 

 Katabasis by R F Kuang 

 House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorn

 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 

 NON-FICTION 

 Serviceberry by Robin Kimmerer 

 107 Days by Kamala Harris 

 Taylors Version by Stephanie Burt 

 Exorcist Effect by Joseph Laycock