Book Reviews 2025

Are you looking for a book recommendation? Or, did you miss one of The Running Bibliophile's Book Reviews in 2025? Maybe you're in a reading slump. Check out our book recommendations and book reviews below. 

If you have read one of these books, we'd love to hear what you thought of the book as well, so don't forget to comment on the blog post. With that being said, please keep all comments respectful and without spoilers so everyone can have an enjoyable experience.

- The Running Bibliophile -

January 2025 Book Reviews

• The House on Tradd Street (Tradd Street, #1) by Karen White
• Seven-Year Witch (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries, #2) by Angela M. Sanders
• Troop Esme by Lourdes Heuer and Marissa Valdez
• Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret (Ernest Cunningham, #3) by Benjamin Stevenson
• Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop (Beacon Bakeshop, #1) by Darci Hannah
• Witchycakes #1:  Sweet Magic by Kara LaReau
• Unruly Julie by Alan Moss
• Haunting and Homicide by Ava Burke
• Orson and the World's Loudest Library by Laura Gehl
• Trust Issues by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan and Greg Wands

February 2025 Book Reviews

• The Meadowbrook Murders by Jessica Goodman
• Ghostly Getaway by Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill
• I Am The Cage by Allison Sweet Grant
• The Classified Catnapping (Mystery at the Biltmore, #2) by Colleen Nelson
• The Garden by Nick Newman
• I Am Made of Death by Kelly Andrew

March 2025 Book Reviews

• Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave (Finlay Donovan, #5) by Elle Cosimano
• Murder at the Blarney Bash (Beacon Bakeshop, #5) by Darci Hannah
• The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
• Claire, Darling by Callie Kazumi

April 2025 Book Reviews

• The Writer by James Patterson and J.D. Barker
• Bridal Shower Murder (Lucy Stone, #31) by Leslie Meier

May 2025 Book Reviews

• The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) by Freida McFadden
• Witness 8 (Eddie Flynn, #8) by Steve Cavanagh

June 2025 Book Reviews

• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
• Lie in the Tide (A Little White Lies Thriller Book 1) by Holly Danvers
• Murder at the High School Reunion (Maya and Sandra Mystery, #5) by Lee Hollis

July 2025 Book Reviews

• That Last Carolina Summer by Karen White

August 2025 Book Reviews

• The Devil's Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6) by Eddie Cavanagh
• The First Ladies by Marie Benedict
• Halloween Night Murder (Lucy Stone Mystery, #31.5) by Leslie Meier
• Witch and Tell (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries, #7) by Angela M. Sanders

September 2025 Book Reviews

• We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1) by Karin Slaughter
• Murder at the Cape Costumers (Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery, #7) by Maddie Day

October 2025 Book Reviews

• Now or Never (Stephanie Plum, #31) by Janet Evanovich
• Shot Through The Book (Lighthouse Library Mystery, #12) by Eva Gates
• One by One by Freida McFadden

November 2025 Book Reviews

• The Hitchhikers by Chevy Stevens

December 2025 Book Reviews

• Remember Her Name!:  Debbie Allen's Rise to Fame by Tami Charles
• Death of a Tom Turkey (Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery, #18) by Lee Hollis