December 16, 2025
My top rated books for 2025
I’m on track to read 46 47 48 books this year — up by four five six from 2024. I was lucky enough to find eight books I felt were worthy of 10 stars out of 10, plus three others that didn’t quite make it with 9.5.
The reason for the strike-throughs is that I managed to squeak in a couple more books before the end of the year. One was an epic that I was determined to be done with after several months, and the other was a page-turner that I devoured in five days.
10/10
A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews
Memoir
Jennie’s Boy
by Wayne Johnston
Memoir
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
by Emma Hooper
Fiction
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
Mystery
A Two-Spirit Journey
by Ma-nee Chacaby
Memoir
The Other Valley
by Scott Alexander Howard
Speculative fiction
Fifteen Dogs
by André Alexis
Speculative fiction
Red Team Blues
by Cory Doctorow
Science fiction
9.5/10
The Ministry of Time
by Kaliane Bradley
Science fiction
How the Light Gets In
by Louise Penny
Mystery/thriller
I Will Ruin You
by Linwood Barclay
Thriller