My pleasure - even with a year gone, the book remains one of the most singular reading experiences of the year. So has to be called out :)

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Top Reads of 2025 A fantastic reading year yields a plentiful bounty of awesome books

And at long last, my Top Books of 2025 list is done. It pretty much confirms that 2025 was a fantastic year for books and I couldnt stick to a top 15, let alone top 10.

Featuring books across 3 main categories- SERIES STARTERS/ STANDALONES, SEQUELS & FINALES. Also has BoTY
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Fantastic and in a way Twelve months reflects the cost of choices that Dresden and Jim Butcher have made all along

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files #18) A somber reflective book giving us a book that we and Dresden need by way of Breaking Bad, Hobbit and Batman

Happy book bday to Jim Butcher for #TwelveMonths - The Dresden Files is my fav urban fantasy series & the 18th book gives us the same magic while being somber & reflective.

My review - vinayvasan.substack.com/p/twelve-mon...

Thanks to @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social

Ha ha nice - I could say a bunch of profanely nice things about it :)

Lolz and it just never lets you go once it has you by the unmentionables :)

You have really created a one of a kind reading experience with this book and its sequel

Enjoy :)

My pleasure - it was fantastic to read what you had crafted & it’s only fair to call it out :)

Of Monsters and Mainframes was fantastic!!!! You should definitely read it

Lovely post!!!

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I even broke it down into 6 interesting categories, since the consultant in me loves categorization :)

- Author based additions
- Hot Sequels
- Jittery Feels
- Indie/ Self Published
- Cool titles/ premise
- Heartbreakers

26 for 2026 26 of my anticipated SFF titles for 2026 (and a few more)

2026 is almost here & so are some amazing books. I had a fear that 2025 had truly spoilt us in terms of books but as I started building the 2026 list, there were so many books that I am now properly primed for 2026

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Had a lot of fun - and can’t wait for the next one esp given where you left this one off at

Such a fantastic sequel and is in the running for book of the year - this series is so much fun @jamesloganauthor.bsky.social

I had fun reading the book as well as writing this review :)

Extremity by Nicholas Binge This time-traveling, end-of-the-world police procedural with shades of Nicole Kidman’s Destroyer is an unputdownable thrilling ride with an interesting narrative choice

12) #Extremity by @bingewriting.bsky.social - 4.5/5

This time-traveling, end of the world police procedural feels like it was written for me. Searingly unputdownable with a trippy narrative, its bleak, cynical & darkly humorous & possibly the novella of the year

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Wow, this book was quite spectacular, fun and compulsively binge-able (yes I know what I just did there) - had an absolute blast

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I could technically come down to London twice and carry the books with me for that cost :)

Yes - I added a set of books to see. The books cost £120 and the shipping estimate was £1000 🤷‍♂️

This is lovely and I am totally J :)

I also want!!!!! 😢😢😢

I had a total blast reading & even greater one on sharing my thoughts on this fun roller-coaster ride - @davewragg.com knocks it out of the park, dealing with a life governed by violence & the possible impacts of it across relationships....

Someone's just thrown a bottle of Omega 3 tablets at me. I only received super fish oil injuries, but still.

11) #OrdersOfMagnitude by @yuvalkordov.bsky.social - 4/5

Deeply atmospheric, tense & reflective, my foray into this fantastic incense punk novella was in parts Event Horizon & in parts Ad-Astra, featuring a Vatican-approved special forces mission to a lost colony of the moon

Yup - out soon

Thank you - loved the first 2 books, esp some of the examination on the nature of violence. High expectations on this one :)

Woohoo got the ARC approved for #IronRoad by @davewragg.com - thanks to @harpercollins.bsky.social
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Cant wait to read about Ree & Javani's journeys pan out in this trilogy capper

Five Phantom Discount by Marcus Fell & Jason Krumbine - ARC Review Oceans 5 in the magical underbelly of New York City

Five Phantom Discount by Marcus Fell & Jason Krumbine was so much fun in an Ocean's 11 meets Ocean's 8 set in NYC's underground but with magic

Thanks to @netgalley.bsky.social & Sterling & Stone for my review copy

Review - vinayvasan.substack.com/p/five-phant...