Favourite books read in 2025

I'm sharing my favourite books that I read in 2025 - these are the books I read for the very first time in 2025, and are ones I rated 5* or 4* on Goodreads (listed in no particular order). Head over to Goodreads if you want to see every book I read, or follow along on my 2026 reading journey. 

First up, the five star reads of the year were:

• Clown Town by Mick Herron
• Recursion by Blake Crouch

And I gave four stars to:

• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• Babel by R.F. Kuang 
• Fourth Wing and Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
• Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
• Thorn in my Side by C.J. Skuse
• The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
• Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton
• Conclave by Robert Harris
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson
• Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas
• Chasing Shadows by Robert Bryndza
• Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home by Jeremy Clarkson
• Knight's Ransom by Jeff Wheeler
• Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
• Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
• The Eights by Joanna Miller 
• Deadly Fate by Angela Marsons
• The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith
• The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
• Win by Harlan Coben
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
• Writers & Lovers by Lily King
• Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
• Two Kinds of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
• A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
• A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

What were your favourite books you read in 2025? x