In my introduction to my Honourable Mentions , I already shared that 2025 has been a somewhat unfortunate year for me. This unintentionally had an impact on my reading as well, and you might see this reflected in some of the recurring themes throughout the books on this list. In a strange way, these favourites lists are a bit like journal-entries, reflecting a little snap-shot of my overall mood of a year. There’s something beautiful in that, and it’s why I personally love lo

As part of my 2025 reading-resolutions, I DNF-ed more books that I wasn’t enjoying than I might have done in previous years. I’m happy to say that that significantly lowered the number of truly awful/harmful/boring books I read, that would qualify for this list. Most of these therefore, were more so disappointing than objectively bad. That being said, there were inevitably going to be a few stinkers that snuck through my defenses. This list is all about them. Unlike my favour

It took me longer than any other year before to compile my end-of-year-lists, and even so, they ended up looking a little different from previous years. 2025 has not been a good year for me. Apart from couple of significant changes in my personal- and professional life that posed challenges, I was visited by the Black Dog again about halfway through the year. If you’re unfamiliar with that metaphor, please feel free to google it… Where this beasty has been a small and well-be

There's always something truly exciting to me about browsing publishers catalogues and Goodreads' release-dates for upcoming novels to add to my TBR. 2026 has a great line-up in store for us all, and I've selected 26 of them to share with you. Split into 13 books from authors I've read from before (including some of my all-time favourites), and 13 books that sold me on their synopsis: let's get excited for the new year together. As always, release-dates might be subject to ch

Genre: Literary Fiction Novella, Magical Realism, Post-apocalyptic. Published: New Directions (US)/ Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) , March 2024 My Rating: 1/5 stars "That was the future. This is now. The end of the world looks exactly the way you remember. Don’t try to picture the apocalypse. Everything is the same." I wanted to love this novella so bad. A magical realism story of an undead woman, tracking across a desolate landscape with a crow living inside her chest, explori

The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop book 2) - Sarah Beth Durst Genre: cozy fantasy Pagecount: 374 pages Comfort-factor: cottagecore cozy fantasy with a snowy setting Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium. This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet, one