Staff Favorite Books Of 2025 by Sandra Murphy, Sarah Erwin, Tracy Condie, & Lorie Lewis HamIt’s once again time to look back at the books we reviewed here at KRL, and KRL News and Reviews, over the past year and share with you s...

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SECRETS OF THE KILLING STATE by @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social featured in the latest On Wings of Hope newsletter.

THE OPTIMISTS by Brian Platzer reviewed by @shelf-awareness.com! 

Congrats to all! 

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Out in Print: Best books of 2025 - QnotesCarolinas.com Kick‑start 2026 with the ten standout books of 2025—curated picks for savvy readers who love smart, fresh storytelling.

OUT IN PRINT - Best books of 2025. Review them at link👇

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We are proud to announce that Me & Lavender won GOLD in the Kiddable Awards 2025 for Best Kid's Ebook!!
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BookBitch Diary: January 1, 2026 Wishing you a very happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year filled with lots of good books! Book News The Supreme Court Just Opened the Door to a New Era of Book Bans So many best books of the year lists! Here are some I found useful, and hope you do, too! The 10 best books of 2025 (The Washington Post)

BookBitch Diary: January 1, 2026: Happy New Year! Lots of lists - best books, best cookbooks, best recipes and some good news! Wishing you a very happy, healthy, and prosperous 2026 filled with lots of good books! #bestbooks2025 #bestcookbooks2025 #bestrecipes2025 #bookstagram #booksky

187 books read this year! My top 10 #BestBooks2025 ~

It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski
Didn’t You Used to be Queenie B? by Terri-Lynne DeFino
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
The Boys of Riverside by Thomas Fuller

New Year's plans? How about a romantic adventure? She’s looking to escape her man troubles. Instead, she finds the man of her dreams. There’s only one problem. He’s dead. Named BEST TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE of 2025! 💙📚🌶️ #booksky #timetravelromance #romancegems #bestbooks2025 https://books2read.com/u/mgx90q

New Year's plans? How about a romantic adventure?

She’s looking to escape her man troubles. Instead, she finds the man of her dreams. There’s only one problem. He’s dead.

Named BEST TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE of 2025! 💙📚🌶️

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Rebecca Powell on Instagram: "For those of you asking what my favourite books of the year were, here are a few highlights from 2025…would love to hear if any of your favourites are here…📚 #bookstagra... 13 likes, 2 comments - rebeccapowellbooks on December 28, 2025: "For those of you asking what my favourite books of the year were, here are a few highlights from 2025…would love to hear if any of your...

What were your favourite books of 2025? Here are a few of mine:
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Asia in 2025: Round-up of “Best Books” lists How, as we ask every year, did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2025?

Asia in 2025: Round-up of “Best Books” lists.

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Best Books of 2025 I feel very accomplished this year, as I managed to get this list down to a 'mere' dozen. At one point early on I was adding an additional book to the list each year, which was not so bad when I began in 2011 with 11 books, but started to get VERY unwieldy as I got to 2018 or thereabouts.

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Solaris Authors Favourite Books of the Year, Christmas Wishes and 2026 releases to watch out for! | Rebellion Publishing It's that time of year again! We've asked a selection of our authors who all have recent releases or forthcoming titles three very important questions...

What's on your TBR 2026 pile? And what did you most enjoy reading this past year? My publisher @solarisbooks.bsky.social asked me those questions -- and I had thoughts!

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Announcing the 2025 N. N. Light Book Awards Winners, these are the best books of the year in many categories and genres, as chosen by our reviewers Each of these books was given a 5 star or 5+ or 5++ star review by the reviewers at N. N. Light’s Book Heaven and they are highly recommended reads.

Announcing the 2025 N. N. Light Book Awards Winners, these are the best books of the year in many categories and genres, as chosen by our reviewers
Best Indie Book of the Year:

One Drink Away by Jessa Tidewell
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These are just some of the #books on our list of best books read in 2025.
It's a rich and varied list. Check it out! You are bound to find something you want to read, or want to give someone.
What were your favourite reads this year?
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“Curious, impressive and rigorous.”

Post-Soviet Graffiti by Alexis Lerner is one of @iajournal.bsky.social's Top 10 Books of the Year!

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Doll Parts | Penny Zang Penny Zang’s atmospheric and claustrophobic debut novel has it all: suspicious deaths, a fractured female friendship and a Sylvia Plath suicide club set in the angsty, grunge-driven 90s. So let’s d…

Penny Zang’s atmospheric and claustrophobic debut novel, Doll Parts, has it all: suspicious deaths, a fractured female friendship and a Sylvia Plath suicide club set in the angsty, grunge-driven 90s.
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A Twist of Fate | Se-Ah Jang South Korean author Se-Ah Jang’s crime debut, A Twist of Fate, draws inspiration from classic gothic fiction. While utilising many of the genre’s tropes—family secrets, unexplained deaths, and a si…

On today's #BestBooks2025 menu: A Korean crime fiction novel that puts a spin on the classic gothic novel. A Twist of Fate by Se-Ah Jang westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a... #koreancrimefiction

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Fox | Joyce Carol Oates Francis Harlan Fox is a popular literature teacher at the elite Langhorne Academy in New Jersey, beloved by scholars and admired by colleagues. Francis Harlan Fox is also a sociopath, paedophile an…

Next up on #BestBooks2025 is Fox by the sometimes controversial, always outspoken Joyce Carol Oates. A truly unsettling read. @4thestatebooks.bsky.social westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/f...

Thank you to Amazon for including Running My Own Race in their UK best children’s books of 2025 list and for the lovely review of the book.

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The Homecoming | Zoë Apostolides Zoë Apostolides’s debut novel, The Homecoming, is a gothic tale that masterfully blends a strong sense of place with a classic horror atmosphere. It follows Ellen, a ghostwriter sent to a remote ma…

A wonderfully creepy gothic tale (with eels!) for today's #BestBooks2025: The Homecoming by Zoë Apostolides. Published by @saltpublishing.com. westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/t...

The Man Who Died Seven Times | Yasuhiko Nishizawa Japanese puzzle mystery meets time-loop caper in Yasuhiko Nishizawa’s first novel translated into English. Japanese novels playing with the concept of time have been popular recently. Last year, we…

From Iceland to Japan. My next #BestBooks2025 is Japanese puzzle mystery meets time-loop caper, Yasuhiko Nishiza @pushkinpress.com @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social
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Stellaaaaa! Yes, today's #BestBooks2025 is none other than the mysterious @stellablomkvist.bsky.social with Murder Tide. If you enjoy strong female characters you'll love Stella. westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/.../murder-t... @corylusbooks.bsky.social #icelandnoir

“Land of Milk and Hiney” by C. Pam Zhang with a 4.0 out of 5 star rating. “The Bee Sting” by Paul Murray with a 4.75 rating. “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison with a 4.0 rating.

“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier with a 4.5 rating. “Open Throat” by Henry Hake with a 2.0 rating. “Poor Dear” by Claire Oshetsky with a 4.75 rating.

“Chain-Gang All-Stars” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah with a 5.0 rating. “All the Colors of the Dark” by Chris Whitaker with a 3.75 rating. “The Poppy War” by R.F. Kuang with a 4.5 rating.

“Clear” by Carys Davies with a 3.0 rating. “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey with a 4.0 rating. “Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin with a 4.0 rating.

I read 25 books this year and here is a thread from my StoryGraph app #booksky #reading #bestbooks2025 #bookshelf

The Ghostwriter | Julie Clark Olivia Dumont is a ghostwriter, but a public spat with another writer has left her career in ruins. Her luck changes when acclaimed horror author Vincent Taylor requests Olivia to ghostwrite his me…

Too many #BestBooks2025 to share, so I've started up doubling up my daily shared reviews! Next up, Julie Clark's The Ghostwriter, because who doesn't love a book about writers? westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/t... @crimefictionlover.bsky.social @sourcebooks.bsky.social

The Bonnie Dead by Andrew Raymond Glasgow author Andrew Raymond is well-known for his political and spy thrillers, but The Bonnie Dead is his first venture into the crime genre – a police procedural set in his home city. You’ll fin…

Tartan noir with a distinctive Scottish setting, endearing characters, a strong plot and some of that sardonic, self-effacing Scottish humour. Today's #BestBooks2025 is Andrew Raymond's Bonnie Dead. @crimefictionlover.bsky.social #crimefiction
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Summerhouse | Yiğit Karaahmet Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury — It’s not often we come across Turkish crime fiction, much less examples influenced by Nabokov and Highsmith, but Yiğit Karaahmet has produced an original, atmos…

Nabokov meets Highsmith meets Hitchcock in Yiğit Karaahmet's Summerhouse, one of my top 5 Crime Fiction Lover reads of 2025. westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/s... #crimefictionbooks #BestBooks2025 @sohopress.bsky.social

Broken | Jón Atli Jónasson Translated by Quentin Bates— In Broken, the first instalment of a trilogy set in Iceland, Atli Jónasson introduces two new, flawed and multi-layered characters to the Nordic Noir landscape: Dóra an…

Some authentic Nordic Noir on today's #BestBooks2025
Jón Atli Jónasson's Broken is published by Corylus Books. A breath of fresh air in an often saturated crime genre. westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/b... #iceland

Red Tide | Irma Venter Renowned South African crime author Irma Venter plunges readers into the arid expanse of the Great Karoo where the little town of Carnavon harbours old grudges, secrets and an unsolved murder that …

Previously available only in South Africa, Irma Venter's Red Tide can now be enjoyed by UK and US readers, thanks to Catalyst Press. #IrmaVenter westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/r... #BestBooks2025

THE INVISIBLE PARADE by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio featured on CSMCL’s Best Books of 2025 List.

Thank you to The Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature for selecting THE INVISIBLE PARADE as one of their Best Books of 2025!

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🥲I just wanted to make a book about the origins of humanity…
Beyond grateful that 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒆 has resonated with so many 🙏🏾Thank you Thank you to all who have come along on this Middle Paleolithic Era journey…
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