⭐️ My 5-Star Reads of 2025 ⭐️
⭐️ My 5-Star Reads of 2025 ⭐️
Every one of these left me thinking about it long after I turned the last page. If you’re looking to absolutely wreck your TBR, start here ⬇️
📕 Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman
A wildly addictive, darkly hilarious sci-fi where Earth becomes a lethal dungeon run by aliens. Absurd, brutal, and way smarter than it has any right to be.
📕 Wild Dark Shore – Charlotte McConaghy
A haunting, atmospheric story set on a remote island where nature, isolation, and buried secrets collide. Quietly devastating and impossible to shake.
📕 Listen for the Lie – Amy Tintera
A woman returns to her hometown years after being accused of murder—only to investigate the crime herself. Sharp, twisty, and darkly funny in the best way.
📕 Not Quite Dead Yet – Holly Jackson
A high-stakes mystery where a young woman must solve her own attempted murder before time runs out. Fast-paced, clever, and completely bingeable.
📕 Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield
A surreal, aching exploration of love and grief after a deep-sea mission goes wrong. Beautifully strange and emotionally crushing.
📕 Perfume & Pain – Anna Dorn
A biting, darkly comedic look at desire, identity, and artistic ambition. Uncomfortable, sharp, and painfully honest.
📕 Broken Country – Clare Leslie Hall
A powerful story of love, class, and consequences set in the English countryside. Emotional, immersive, and quietly heartbreaking.
📕 Silver Elite – Dani Francis
A dystopian romance packed with danger, rebellion, and impossible choices. Perfect for fans of high-stakes worlds and slow-burn tension.
📕 Isola – Allegra Goodman
Based on a true story, this novel follows a woman abandoned on a remote island in the 1500s. Lyrical, brutal, and deeply human.
📕 Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
An unlikely friendship between a grieving woman and a remarkably intelligent octopus. Warm, hopeful, and pure comfort reading.
📕 Atmosphere – Taylor Jenkins Reid
A love story set against the backdrop of NASA’s space program. Tender, ambitious, and full of longing.
📕 The Favorites – Layne Fargo
A ruthless look at ambition, obsession, and fame in the world of competitive ice dancing. Messy, addictive, and deliciously toxic.
📕 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil – V.E. Schwab
A gothic, genre-bending tale about immortality, hunger, and the stories we tell to survive. Lush, dark, and unforgettable.
📕 Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
A man wakes up alone in space with no memory—and humanity’s survival at stake. Science-heavy, surprisingly emotional, and wildly entertaining.
📕 Count My Lies – Sophie Stava
A gripping psychological thriller about secrets, deception, and the stories we tell to protect ourselves. Tense, twisty, and compulsively readable.