My favourite reads of 2025.

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
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Swordheart follows Halla, a 35 12 months outdated widow, as she goes on an surprising journey after inheriting an uncommon sword with an immortal warrior magically trapped inside it.

Will Halla escape her scheming family members and safe the fortune that’s rightfully hers? Will the mysterious man within the sword ever reveal his secret previous? Will they meet a unusual and pleasant solid of characters throughout their journey? You’ll must learn it to seek out out.

It’s a standalone, however the writer has written different books on this world and I intend to learn all of them.

You Ought to Be So Fortunate by Cat Sebastian
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(This one’s for you, my fellow Heated Rivalry followers!)

Set in 1960’s NYC, this stunning queer love story a couple of sardonic reporter falling in love with knowledgeable baseball participant was the most effective romance I learn in 2025.

Mark Bailey isn’t a sports activities reporter, however he’s spiraling after shedding the person he anticipated to spend his life with when his boss assigns him to cowl some baseball video games. Mark finds himself assigned to a day-in-the-life diary characteristic meant to rehabilitate the picture of the native workforce’s latest participant, hotshot-in-a-slump Eddie O’Leary.

Grumpy/sunshine with scrumptious craving, this ebook acknowledges the existence of homophobia in a normal manner, however like all Romance novels, it has a contented ending.

The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim
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The God and the Gumiho is a vibrant and enthralling fantasy story impressed by Korean mythology. First in a sequence, however works as a standalone.

Kim Hani is a Gumiho (legendary 9 tailed fox demon), however she doesn’t eat souls anymore – she’s a barista now and no person is aware of she was as soon as the Scarlet Fox, essentially the most notorious Gumiho of all time.

Seokga the Fallen, an exiled god making an attempt to earn his manner free from the mortal realm by combating demons with the native police drive, at all times bickers with Kim when he comes into her espresso store. It’s all very routine till at some point when Kim discovers {that a} rash of native murders are being blamed on her alter ego, the Scarlet Fox, and he or she is Seokga’s subsequent goal.

Kim joins the investigation by taking a job because the fallen god’s assistant. Will she have the ability to defend her secrets and techniques, keep away from seize, discover the true perpetrator, and resist falling for Seokga’s smolderingly sardonic allure?

The Glimmer Falls sequence by Sarah Hawley
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This Up to date Romance sequence is about in Glimmer Falls, a metropolis the place magical of us don’t want to cover their powers. There are part-pixie influencers, social climbing witches, magic customers vying for the city mayor place, and a candy, shy werewolf who runs the backyard middle.

The Glimmer Falls sequence follows a bunch of pals on this uncommon city as all of them discover love by surprising adventures. Count on wayward demons trapped by bargains gone awry, immortal assassins captured in plastic, a werewolf rugby workforce, and extra.

These books are excessive on essentially the most entertaining manner. And these are correct Romance books, so count on on-page spice.

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
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Bookish Dryadology Professor Emily Wilde plans to maintain her head down and hopefully make tenure at her college again residence by doing subject analysis on some uncommon faeries…however in some way she finally ends up far more concerned than she meant.

This ebook was absorbing from the primary sentence however unfurled at a leisurely tempo that invited me to learn slower than standard and take every thing in. I completely beloved it and can’t wait to learn the following within the sequence.

Extremely beneficial if you happen to like a sensible, no-nonsense heroine who prioritizes her ardour for her vocation above social niceties. This ebook incorporates some romance, however it’s not a Romance – the love story is a really, very small a part of the ebook.

Woman Derring Takes a Lover (The Palace of Rogues #1) by Julie Anne Lengthy
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Woman Derring isn’t too heartbroken when her husband unexpectedly expires, however she is distressed to find that he left her with nothing however a dilapidated constructing on the docks. Whereas on the lookout for solutions from her husband’s solicitor, she bumps into one other girl in an analogous scenario who seems to be her late husband’s mistress.

The 2 girls notice that they each have nowhere else to show, and determine to depend on one another: they pool their meager sources and open a boarding home.

The remainder of this Historic Romance sequence follows the varied residents and company of the boarding home as one couple after one other finds their fortunately ever after.

The Scholomance Collection by Naomi Novik
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A Lethal Schooling (Scholomance #1) is about in a magical boarding faculty, however it’s no Hogwarts. College students grasp their powers and defends themselves from mals – evil creatures interested in magic – or they die. There aren’t any academics and a excessive demise price.

The principle character, El, is an outsider with no helpful alliances in a world the place your connections are every thing. Her affinity for damaging magic makes her highly effective, however she must show that in the correct manner in order that she’ll have alternatives after commencement with out making everybody suppose she’s evil.

I already know I’ll reread this sequence once more, however it might not be everybody’s cup of tea. It’s darkish and a bit unusual, however it was excellent for me.

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
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Mika Moon is an obedient witch: at all times following her guardian’s guidelines to maintain her magic and their group a secret. It’s a lonely life, so she decides to take a danger and begin a TikTok account for making actual potions that she pretends are pretend.

When her TikTok catches the eye of an uncommon family on the lookout for somebody to assist three younger witches, she begins to appreciate that every thing she thought was settled about her life would possibly really be due for a change.

I want I may put this ebook in a blender and drink it. It’s so heat and full of affection! Cozy fantasy with a sprinkle of romance.

Godkiller (Fallen Gods #1) by Hannah Kaner
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Godkiller is about in a kingdom the place gods are outlawed and Godkillers like principal character Kissen make a residing searching down and destroying any small gods that pop up or older ones which have been in hiding.

Kissen could solely have one leg however she’s an extremely badass girl with a knack for killing issues which might be almost invulnerable, which is why she’s so shocked when she finds herself becoming a member of forces with a really uncommon little one who has a selected god-related downside. Quickly they meet a baker/ex-soldier with a royal connection and the three of them be part of forces on a harmful journey…which spirals right into a a lot larger journey than any of the three may have imagined.

Count on gods, kings, betrayals, queer love tales, and glorious incapacity illustration. In the event you like good fantasy, put this one in your library maintain record now and also you’ll thank me later.