My 2025 Reading Wrap-Up

Wrapping up 2025 with 31 books! (A lot less than last year, but still good effort—there was so much adulting accomplished this year!)

Here are my top three reads (all of them Fantasy):

🕮 Red Rising by Pierce Brown

🕮 One Dark Window / Two Twisted Crowns (duology) by Rachel Gillig

🕮 Divine Rivals / Ruthless Vows (duology) by Rebecca Ross

While here’s a list of the rest of the books I read this year, along with my personal reviews. Cheers to more incredible books in 2026! 

🕮 Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter - 5/5

🕮 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - 5/5

🕮 Twisted Love by Ana Huang - 1/5

🕮 The Seven Year Slip - 5/5

🕮 Rains by Greg Hurwitz - 5/5

🕮 Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn - 5/5

🕮 The Silent Patient by Alex Michaeledis - 3/5

🕮 Nightfall by Stephen Leather - 5/5

🕮 Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - 3.5/5

🕮 The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena - 2/5

🕮 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne - 4.5/5

🕮 Caraval by Stephanie Garber - 3/5

🕮 Keep it in the Family by John Marss - 3.5/5

🕮 A Very Typical Family by Sierra Godfrey - 2/5

🕮 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - 4/5

🕮 Lightlark by Alex Aster - 4/5

🕮 Nightbane (Lightlark Book2) - 5/5

🕮 Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano - 4.5/5

🕮 Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry - 5/5

🕮 Quicksilver by Callie Hart - 5/5

🕮 Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole - 3.5/5

🕮 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen - 4/5

🕮 Hunger Games (audiobook) - 5/5

🕮 The Ever King by LJ Andrews - 3.5/5

🕮 Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney - 3.5/5

🕮 Year One by Nora Roberts - 5/5

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No Rhyme, Just Reason is a Taupō, New Zealand–based blog by Ariane about books, good food, long walks, and unapologetic naps.