2025 was one of the best reading years ever quality-wise. Today's Top Ten Tuesday is listed in the order I read them with my favorite book of the year at the end!
Jade City by Fonda Lee (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
The Bone Ships by R.J. Barker (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Shroud by M.R. Carey (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
The Will of the Many by James Islington (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
From the bestselling author M. R. Carey comes an utterly unique and enchantingly dark epic fantasy fable like no other.
This is the tale of Once Was Willem, who - eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England - rose from the dead to defeat a great evil facing the humble village of Cosham.
Pennick for all its beauty was ever a place with a dark reputation. The forests of the Chase were said to be home to nixies and boggarts, and there was a common belief, passed down through many generations, that the castle housed an unquiet ghost of terrible and malign power. These rumours I can attest were all true; indeed they fell short of the truth by a long way . . .
Let me know if you have read or plan to read any of these!
