The good folks curating book recommendations at Shepherd.com collect readers’ three favourite books from November through the following October, which gives them time to post everyone’s top 3 picks before the calendar year-end.

Here’s a link to my top 3, which will also be reflected in my year-end picks:

Janet Sketchley’s 3 Favourite Reads in 2025

I can tell you one’s nonfiction, one’s a mystery, and one’s a new-to-me genre. I highly recommend each one.

All readers are welcome to add their top 3 picks to Shepherd’s annual list.

And authors are welcome to create a list of “5 books you love around a topic, theme, or mood” connected to one of your books you want to feature. For example, my list is “The best Christian/clean books where mystery/suspense meets women’s fiction” and it links to my first Green Dory Inn Mystery, Unknown Enemy.

[Disclosure: if you get to the Shepherd site by way of my 3 Favourite Reads link and you decide to submit your own 3 favourites, there’s a referrer link that will automatically show my book, Unknown Enemy, below your picks. It’s a little perk Shepherd offers for referrals. If you’d rather not have your list connected with my book, just go to Shepherd.com and start fresh with your list. If you’re an author, you may want to go straight to their “welcome authors” section.]