The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (cozy romantasy)
The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi (SF - fun to get back into the Old Man's War universe)
This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman (fun fantasy)
(end/7)

Honorable Mentions:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (SF. This was first time I've read Stephenson. Not sure I'll read more but it was interesting.)
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (romance)
(6/7)

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (mystery)
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler (fun, if gory, fantasy)
Devotions by Mary Oliver (poetry collection)
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green (nonfiction)
(5/7)

(counting this as one) The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan books 1 & 2) by Robert Jackson Bennett (fantasy/mystery)
Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher (creepy fantasy)
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (cozy-ish SF)
(4/7)

Top 10: (in no particular order)
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (literary SF)
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (literary fantasy)
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (weird fantasy)
(3/7)

Here's my best new (to me) books of 2025. As you can see, most were Science Fiction or Fantasy. Reality held no appeal this year!! (2/7)

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