{"id":3380,"date":"2026-01-15T02:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:00:14","slug":"favorite-books-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/favorite-books-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Books of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not all of these books were published in 2025; I just happened to read them this year. Once again I note that my favored reading tends toward paranormal, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery, with a smattering of romance. Not really a surprise to me. I&#8217;m especially happy when an author skillfully combines more than one of those genres.\u00a0 However, my absolute favorite book of the year was a more mainstream book, an extraordinary story &#8211; <em><strong>Theo of Golden.<a href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Theo_of_Golden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3392 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Theo_of_Golden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>More Favorites<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3391\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Spellship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"250\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3390\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Shattered_King.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"250\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3389\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Maid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3388\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Inheritance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"250\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3387\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Bookshop_Of_Secrets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"250\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3386\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sorceress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3385\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paladins_Grace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3384\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/One_Dark_Window.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3383\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Gentleman_Hard_Times.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3382\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Evergreen_Academy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3381\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/An_Easy_Death.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all of these books were published in 2025; I just happened to read them this year. Once again I note that my favored reading tends toward paranormal, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery, with a smattering of romance. Not really <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/favorite-books-of-2025\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}