{"id":32522,"date":"2025-12-21T03:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/?p=32522"},"modified":"2025-12-15T20:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:31:34","slug":"the-top-5-novels-i-read-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2025\/12\/the-top-5-novels-i-read-in-2025.html","title":{"rendered":"The Top 5 Novels I Read in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I was a voracious reader as a child and as a young adult. And then I just stopped.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t completely stop reading. I still read books on science, religion, history, and anthropology. Between that and all my writing over the years, I\u2019ve done enough work for at least one Master\u2019s degree and maybe more.<\/p>\n

But I stopped reading novels. There was just no time \u2013 especially the large blocks of time needed to immerse myself in a good story.<\/p>\n

I read some urban fantasy (favorite authors: Laurell K. Hamilton and Kim Harrison). I re-read the occasional classic<\/a>. I read the series that must not be named \u2013 and I\u2019m still angry over the author missing the point of her own stories and turning into the Queen of the TERFs. But that was it.<\/p>\n

Three years ago I made a conscious decision to go back to reading novels. Reading good fiction is inspiring. It expands your imagination. And it\u2019s fun \u2013 I can always use more fun.<\/p>\n

At the end of the year I shared my Top 5 novels of 2023<\/a>, plus one more that lots of people recommended but didn\u2019t work for me. I read even more in 2024<\/a>, and I added a trilogy that were great history lessons even if they weren\u2019t great novels.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t read quite as many novels in 2025, but I still read enough to give me a nice selection for this year\u2019s Top 5 feature, plus a couple extra. So here are the top five novels I read this year.<\/p>\n

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5. Blood on Her Tongue<\/h2>\n

Blood on Her Tongue <\/em><\/strong>by Johanna van Veen. 2025, 368 pages.<\/p>\n

Lucy \u2013 not Lucy Westenra, though if that\u2019s who you picture in your head you\u2019ll be close \u2013 is concerned about her twin sister Sarah, who became physically and mentally unwell after discovering a strange corpse on her wealthy husband\u2019s estate in the Netherlands in the 1880s. And so Lucy goes to care for Sarah, and to try to solve the mystery.<\/p>\n

What would it be like to read a vampire novel if you didn\u2019t already know what vampires are? Oh, you know a thing or two about vampire lore, but what\u2019s tangibly real, what\u2019s folklore, and what\u2019s modern fiction? Are they repelled by crosses and garlic? Are they weakened by the sun, killed by the sun, or not even bothered by the sun? And most importantly, what do they need \u2013 and want \u2013 from the living?<\/p>\n

Blood on Her Tongue <\/em>is perhaps the most unique vampire novel I\u2019ve ever read. The reader is as much in the dark as the protagonists as to exactly what\u2019s going on, until Lucy figures it out.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s at the bottom of this list \u2013 though above the many more novels that didn\u2019t make the list at all \u2013 because it feels more like science fiction than horror (there\u2019s nothing wrong with science fiction, but it wasn\u2019t what I wanted to read). And also because I wasn\u2019t happy with a decision Lucy made at the end\u2026 though I have to admit I might have done the same thing.<\/p>\n

But it is a fascinating story.<\/p>\n

4. Lucy Undying<\/h2>\n

Lucy Undying<\/em><\/strong> by Kiersten White. 2024, 464 pages.<\/p>\n

This story is<\/em> about Lucy Westenra. Author Kiersten White reimagines a key scene in Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula<\/em> so that Lucy is not staked by Van Helsing\u2019s hunting party and instead lives into the present day as a vampire. She spends her life trying to stay away from Dracula, and trying to find a way to reunite with Mina, her unrequited and unreciprocated love.<\/p>\n

But maybe Mina wasn\u2019t everything Lucy thought she was\u2026<\/p>\n

Lucy\u2019s story is told from her journal (just as in Stoker\u2019s novel), from contemporary conversations, and from the discoveries of one of Mina\u2019s descendants. I\u2019m not fond of asynchronous storytelling, but it\u2019s become quite common, and at least in this instance it works.<\/p>\n

These are familiar characters in a new and unfamiliar story. The mixed reviews say not everyone cares for that, but I did.<\/p>\n

3. Hungerstone<\/h2>\n

Hungerstone<\/em><\/strong> by Kat Dunn. 2025, 336 pages.<\/p>\n

It seems like everyone is reimagining J. Sheridan Le Fanu\u2019s 1872 novella Carmilla<\/em> these days. Among others, S.T. Gibson\u2019s An Education In Malice<\/em> (2024) was the #1 novel I read last year.<\/p>\n

In this reimagining, Lenore takes the place of Laura in the story. She\u2019s the wife of a 19th<\/sup> century British industrialist. After ten years of marriage, her inability to produce a child is a source of frustration for her husband, who has other issues we discover as we move through the narrative.<\/p>\n

And then Carmilla enters their lives through a carriage accident and things begin to change. Carmilla is many things, but she is definitely not a proper 19th<\/sup> century Englishwoman.<\/p>\n

Will this Carmilla end up like Ingrid Pitt in the 1970 Hammer film The Vampire Lovers<\/em>? Or will things take a more favorable turn for the undead?<\/p>\n

This book isn\u2019t #3 on my list for nothing.<\/p>\n

2. Thirst<\/h2>\n

Thirst <\/em><\/strong>by Marina Yuszczuk. 2020, 256 pages.<\/p>\n

Thirst <\/em>was written in Spanish by Argentinian Marina Yuszczuk and translated into English by Heather Cleary. It\u2019s the story of a young woman with a difficult life in present-day Buenos Aires, intertwined with the story of a vampire who lived through Argentina\u2019s settlement and then decided to sleep for a good long time.<\/p>\n

And then her tomb was disturbed.<\/p>\n

Thirst <\/em>is the most literary novel on this list. It\u2019s a vampire novel, but at the end of the day it\u2019s about the human condition, and about how for all things change over the years and over the centuries, people are still people\u2026 even if some of them are immortal blood drinkers.<\/p>\n

1. An Academy For Liars<\/h2>\n

An Academy For Liars<\/em><\/strong> by Alexis Henderson. 2024, 464 pages.<\/p>\n

Lennon\u2019s life is a disaster. As she\u2019s running away from another problem, she gets a mysterious phone call to come take the entrance exam for a college she\u2019s never heard of. She\u2019s skeptical but figures she has nothing to lose. She takes the test and finds herself enrolled in a magical school in Savannah that ordinary people can\u2019t see or find.<\/p>\n

Comparisons to a certain magic school that must not be named are understandable, but also unnecessary. This isn\u2019t that. This is a story of someone who sees a way out of a meaningless life and takes it, despite the risks. It\u2019s also a subtle historical commentary on race and class in a way that tells the unpleasant truth without beating the reader over the head with it.<\/p>\n

And most importantly, it\u2019s the most engaging story on this list. I cared what happened to Lennon, and I enjoyed her progression through the book. That makes it #1 for me for this year.<\/p>\n

This one didn\u2019t make the cut<\/h2>\n

Special Topics in Calamity Physics<\/em><\/strong> by Marisha Pessl. 2007, 514 pages.<\/p>\n

One reviewer called this \u201cThe Secret History<\/em> on acid\u201d and they\u2019re pretty close to right. The Secret History<\/em> was my big disappointment of 2023<\/a> \u2013 heavily hyped but ultimately unsatisfying.<\/p>\n

Special Topics in Calamity Physics<\/em> is a Dark Academia story about a brilliant girl whose mother died when she was young, and whose brilliant but strange father moves her to a different school in a different part of the country every year. She\u2019s trying to fit in, trying to qualify for a good college, and trying to have a something resembling a normal teenage life every now and then. And also be the genuinely strange girl she is.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good concept, and as someone who was a strange kid myself I wanted to like it. Unfortunately, the execution leaves much to be desired. The text is way too verbose, the ending is vague and unsatisfying, and at the end of the day it\u2019s just not as cool as it was supposed to be.<\/p>\n

The book is better than the movie, 1934 edition<\/h2>\n

The Devil Rides Out<\/em><\/strong> by Dennis Wheatley. 1934, 304 pages.<\/p>\n

Christoper Lee called The Devil Rides Out<\/em> (1968) his favorite Hammer film and it\u2019s easy to see why. It was #2 on my 2023 Streaming Revenge<\/a> Halloween movie feature. It\u2019s often billed as The Devil\u2019s Bride<\/em> in the U.S. \u2013 Hammer Films was afraid American audiences would think it was a Western.<\/p>\n

The movie is an adaptation of Dennis Wheatley\u2019s 1934 novel, and so this year I decided to read it. It\u2019s part of Wheatley\u2019s Duke de Richleau series about magic in post World War I Europe. There are a total of 11 books in the series \u2013 The Devil Rides Out<\/em> was the second to be published and the sixth in the chronological order of the stories.<\/p>\n

While the movie is good and a reasonably faithful adaptation, the book is just better. It has scenes that didn\u2019t fit into the movie and more details in the scenes that are still there. The only downside is that the book is occasionally racist in a way typical of the late British Empire, something that was mostly (though not entirely) removed from the movie.<\/p>\n

After this, I read Wheatley\u2019s To the Devil a Daughter<\/em> (1953). Hammer\u2019s 1976 adaptation (also starring Christopher Lee) was not very good, and that\u2019s before you get to Nastassja Kinski\u2019s underage \u2013 and needless \u2013 nudity. I had heard the book was much better there too. It isn\u2019t, even though it bears little resemblance to the story that was filmed.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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