End of the Year

Hi everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’ll be ranking the top 15 classics I read in 2025, from worst to best. Classic literature was my most read genre last year, so I wanted to let you all know which ones were my favorites and which were not. Disclaimer: this list is subjective and it reflects my personal experience reading these novels. I’m in no way saying that the books I didn’t like are bad; in fact, many people love them but, unfortunately, I did not. So, here goes: 15. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas I was deeply…

Hi everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’ll be ranking the series I completed in 2025, from worst to best. Here are my thoughts on all five of them: 5. Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker I picked the first book of this series up from my local library because I wanted to read more mystery/thriller books in 2025. It is a cozy mystery series and I did like the first installment. However, I did not like the second and third books. So, I stopped reading it after that. 4. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir…

Hello everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be giving a list of my most disappointing reads of 2025. I do not mean to say, however, that these books are bad. Some are very popular and much loved by other readers, and I think that’s awesome. But, for some reason, I could not love these books as much as they did, even though I tried and wanted to. Here is the list. 1. HISTORICAL FICTION AND WWII: The Madonnas of Leningrad I wanted to like this one, but, ultimately, it proved a disappointment for me. Why?…

Hi everyone. Welcome (back) to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. This post is the beginning of my end of the year series, which is usually divided into my favorite reads of the year, the most disappointing books I read this year and the books that I didn’t expect to like but did. Before, I also included a list of the books I DNF’d throughout the year, but I already mention those on a monthly basis on my Best and Worst Book of the Month posts at the end of each month so I will not repeat them in this series. I will,…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be talking about my most surprising books of 2022. Here goes: 1. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent This book is a fictional account of the last months in the life of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last person to be executed in Iceland. She was killed on January 12th, 1830, for the deaths of Natan Kettilson and Pétur Jónsson. Based on true events that happened in Northern Ireland more than a hundred years ago, this book relates the events leading up to the murders and how Agnes is housed…

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be talking about my favorite books of 2022. Here goes: 1. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd This book is the story of women during the time when Jesus lived. More specifically, the women whose stories got lost in history because there is no one to tell them. It is more common for men to tell the story of other men, whilst women are cursed by oblivion. So Ana, Jesus’s wife, tries to be the one to tell those stories; stories that, as Ana buries her…

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post I will continue my End Of The Year Series with the second part of my most disappointing books of 2022. Let’s begin: 12. A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong I am avid reader of mythology and history. Combine the two, and it is probably a book that I will read. When I read this book several years ago, I really liked it. But this time, I found that it was too biased on Mesopotamian and Hebrew mythology (not that I have anything against Mesopotamian and Hebrew mythology,…

Hello everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be giving a list of my most disappointing reads of 2022. I do not mean to say, however, that these books are bad. Some are very popular and much loved by other readers, and I think that’s awesome. But, for some reason, I could not love these books as much as they did, even though I tried and wanted to. Here is the list. Again, these books are in no particular order and some I no longer own. So some of the pictures shown here are not mine….

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. This post will be Part II of the books I DNF’d in 2022. This year, love was definitely not in the air as most of these books are romance. Two of these books are even winners of a Goodreads Choice Award in romance (2018 and 2021, respectively), but they just didn’t deliver for me. Again, since I no longer own some of these books, some of the pictures that I post here are not mine. Hence, I will give credit where credit is due. 1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion I…