Reactor Magazine Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2025 Public

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  1. Dead & Breakfast by , (A Dead & Breakfast Mystery, #1)

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    The new vampires in town are sinking their teeth into solving a murder…

    Married odd couple Arthur and Sal …

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    Listed by Alex Brown

  2. The Dead Withheld by 

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    Meet Dizzy Carter: private investigator/blues enthusiast/deadwalker witch. In this sapphic paranormal neo-noir, we follow her exploits in the neon-drenched desert …

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    Listed by Alex Brown

  3. The Antidote by 

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    From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a …

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    Listed by Martin Cahill and Mahvesh Murad

  4. The Everlasting by 

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    From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about …

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    Listed by Martin Cahill

  5. Black Flame by 

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    One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the author of Manhunt, …

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    Listed by Tobias Carroll

  6. The Wax Child by 

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    In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to …

  7. The National Telepathy by 

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    In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for …

  8. Notes from a Regicide by 

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    Notes from a Regicide is a heartbreaking science-fiction story of trans self-discovery from award-winning author Isaac Fellman.

    When your …

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    Listed by Tobias Carroll

  9. Major Arcana by 

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    It begins with a gunshot: a student's public suicide on a university campus. The blast radius of this tragic explosion …

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    Listed by Tobias Carroll

  10. Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by 

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    A garishly painted figurine contains a terrible curse; the ten-year anniversary of a sensational horror film shot in an abandoned …

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    Listed by Tobias Carroll

  11. Cinder House by 

    Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske—a queer Gothic romance perfect …

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    Listed by Maya Gittelman and Natalie Zutter

  12. It’s Not a Cult by 

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    Callum, Melusine and Al play in a band with no name, baffling audiences in terrible pubs across the northeast of …

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    Listed by Maya Gittelman

  13. The Villa, Once Beloved by 

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    A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling façades in Lambda Literary fellow Victor Manibo’s new gothic tale of family, homecoming, …

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    Listed by Maya Gittelman

  14. Holy Terrors by  (Little Thieves, #3)

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    It's been nearly two years since Vanja brought down the cult she started, and she’s still paying the price. As …

  15. Soulgazer by  (The Magpie and the Wolf Duology, #1)

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    With their freedom on the line, a young woman and a rakish pirate take their fate into their own hands …

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    Listed by Jenny Hamilton

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