🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄Day 12 of 12: "Ending the year with a masterpiece that deserves all the praise.” The Reformatory by Tananarive
📚 Perfect for: those who like Historical or Horror #12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #HolidayReads

🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄Day 11 of 12: “Beautifully written and emotionally rich—highly recommend.” Seven days in June by Tia Williams
📚 Perfect for: those who believe in second chances #12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #HolidayReads

🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄Day 10 of 12: “A mystery that kept me guessing until the very end.” The Obsession by Nora Roberts 📚 Perfect for: those who like suspense thriller #12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #HolidayReads

🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄Day 9 of 12: “Laugh-out-loud funny and full of charm!” Can’t get enough by Kenndey Ryan📚 Perfect for: those who like romance & strong female networks.
#12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #HolidayReads#dementia

🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄
Day 8 of 12: “A powerful narrative that stayed with me long after I finished.” And so I roar by Abi Dare
📚 Perfect for: those who like Historical or contemporary fiction
#12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #BookLovers

Prince Albert Public Library has compiled the Top 10 Borrowed Items of 2025! Curious to see what made the list?
Check out our blog for all the details: princealbertlibrary.ca/papl-blog
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🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄
Day 7 of 12: This book reminded me why I adore historical fiction. The personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
📚 Perfect for: those who like a mix of history with fiction #12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #HolidayReads

🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄
Day 6 of 12: “A classic reimagined for modern readers. Loved every page!” Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
📚 Perfect for: those who like coming of age stories
#12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #HolidayReads

🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄
Day 5 of 12: “Non-fiction at its finest—insightful and educational.” The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios
📚 Perfect for: those who like to immerse in History, & science.
#TopReads2025 #Read

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Text: Lonely Castle in the Mirror | Mizuki Tsujimura | Fantasy | Coming of Age This was an unexpected delight. It had been on my TBR for quite a while, and I put off picking it up for some reason. I’m so glad I finally did this year. This was heart-wrenching, beautiful, and sweet, and I haven’t cried so hard reading a book in such a long time. Sure, it was 100+ pages of tears at the end, but it was the cathartic kind of crying you sometimes just really need. This book was a stunner, a 100000/10, and everyone should read it at least once.

Number 1 of my Top Reads of the year is Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

#booksky #bookrecommendations #topreads2025 #lonelycastleinthemirror #mizukitsujimura

🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄
Day 4 of 12: “A thrilling adventure that transported me to another world.” Mistborn: the final empire by Brandon Sanderson.
📚 Perfect for: those who like to immerse in Fantasy, adventure #12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookLovers

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Text: Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | Fantasy This was one of the first books I read this year, and when I finished it I looked at my wife and said, “I just read the best book of 2025. In January.” Technically I did rank one book above this, but I consider my top three so closely tied that any given day my favorite could change. Piranesi is a nearly perfect book. Thought-provoking, wonderous, weird, tragic, joyous, and beautifully written. I’d recommend it to everyone who likes reading. Period.

Number 2 of my Top Reads of the year is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

#booksky #bookrecommendations #topreads2025 #piranesi #susannaclarke

🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄
Day 3 of 12: “This one challenged my thinking and sparked deep conversations.” The message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
📚 Perfect for: those who like politics, non-fiction
#12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #HolidayReads

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Text: How to Survive This Fairytale | S. M. Hallow | Fantasy | Horror | Romance God, this was good. It’s a fairy tale retelling done right, building up a world that can be nasty and cruel, but at the center of it all there are people who lead with compassion, heart, and who offer encouragement to keep going. This book is ruthless in the best way, and I especially appreciate the way it’s written. I love when authors play with structure and form, and this book is such a good example of what can be done by having fun with writing.

Number 3 of my Top Reads of the year is How to Survive This Fairytale by S. M. Hallow

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🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄
Day 2 of 12: “A heart warming story perfect for cosy winter nights.” Seven Days Seven Dates: A Kwanzaa Holiday Story by Bailey West
📚 Perfect for: Holiday romance
#12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #ReadersCommunity #BookLovers

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Text: The Summer Hikaru Died, Vols. 1-6 | Mokumokuren | Horror | Coming of Age This covers all the currently released volumes, and probably all the volumes that will come after. This series is a remarkably tender, devastatingly tragic look at grief and growing up. It’s also an undeniably queer story, even if that queerness is never overtly named and even when it has nothing to do with romantic feelings. It’s built into a pervasive sense of otherness and trying to find community in a world where you don’t seem to fit.

Number 4 of my Top Reads of the year is The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren!

And Merry Christmas!

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Day [1] of 12: “Starting strong with a page-turner that kept me hooked from start to finish!” Razorblade Tears by S.A Cosby. 📚 Perfect for: Fans of suspense, mystery thriller
✨ Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #ReadersCommunity #BookLovers #HolidayReads

🎄✨ 12 Days of Christmas: My Top 12 Reads of 2025! ✨🎄
This holiday season, I’m counting down my favourite books of the year—one for each day! From gripping thrillers to inspiring non-fiction, these reads made 2025 unforgettable. #12DaysOfChristmas #TopReads2025 #BookRecommendations #ReadersCommunity

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Text: The Man with No Shadow | Bonnie Quinn | Horror I picked this one up after reading a mutual’s 1-star review. At the time, I’d been looking for a book to scratch the r/nosleep itch that had lodged itself deep in my brain, and the way they described it made it sound perfect. It was exactly what I wanted at that moment, likely helped along by the fact that it did originate on nosleep. I preordered the second one the moment I finished this, and the fact that it doesn’t come out until April makes me want to CRY.

Number 5 of my Top Reads of the year is How to Survive Camping: The Man with No Shadow by Bonnie Quinn

#booksky #bookrecommendations #topreads2025 #TheManwithnoShadow #BonnieQuinn

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Text: The Killer Question | Janice Hallett | Mystery Before reading this one, I’d read Hallett’s The Examiner and The Appeal. I adored the former and found the latter just okay. The Killer Question blew both out of the water and had me reading the rest of Hallett’s backlog as soon as I could get my hands on them. I love pub trivia, I love mixed media stories, I love zany characters. As someone with a deep obsession with the Knives Out franchise, this scratched that itch so well. So twisty, I couldn’t put it down.

Number 6 of my Top Reads of the year is The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

#booksky #bookrecommendations #topreads2025 #TheKillerQuestion #JaniceHallett

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Text: Midnight Timetable | Bora Chung | Horror This is one of my recent reads, and it blew away most of its competition with ease. I love when a short-story collection has individual but interconnected tales, and this one does it so well that I hope Chung revisits the Institution’s universe in future entries. The stories here are spooky, thought provoking, and strange while always holding a sense of kindness and wonder at their core.

Number 7 of my Top Reads of the year is Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung

#booksky #bookrecommendations #topreads2025 #MidnightTimetable #BoraChung

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Text: The Stepford Wives | Ira Levin | Horror I first read Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby back in high school, and I loved it. I’m actually shocked it took me this long to get to The Stepford Wives. This book was horrifying, fast-paced fun that holds up uncomfortably well in modern times. It’s just plain great satire that I can’t recommend highly enough. Plus it’s super short, so a free afternoon is all you need!

Number 8 of my Top Reads of the year is The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

#booksky #bookrecommendations #topreads2025 #Iralevin #thestepfordwives

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Text: The Butcher of the Forest | Premee Mohamed | Fantasy | Horror Surprisingly, I DNFed this book once before giving it a second shot, and I’m so glad I did. It just goes to show that sometimes you have the right book but at the wrong time. This book is a perfect little fairy tale with just the right amount of grotesquery. I, a huge fan of creepy forests and murderous creatures, ate this up in one sitting like I was starving.

Number 9 of my Top Reads of the year is The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

#booksky #bookrecommendations #topreads2025 #premeemohamed #thebutcheroftheforest

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Text: Everything Is Tuberculosis. John Green. Non-Fiction I was apprehensive to pick this one up since 1. I don’t read a ton of Non-fiction and 2. I haven’t read a John Green novel in over a decade. After a friend’s recommendation I read this one, and I’m really glad I did! This history of the impact and ongoing war against Tuberculosis taught me so much while being incredibly accessible. I especially appreciated its focus on the racist and classist implications of this treatable disease’s continued deadliness in the current age.

Number 10 of my Top Reads of the year is Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green!

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