Beautiful Ugly
by Alice Feeney
★ Top 25 book of 2025 · #22 on Best Books of 2025
Alice Feeney's 2025 psychological thriller follows Grady Green, a once-successful author who withdraws to a remote Scottish island after his wife Abby disappears. There he meets a woman who looks exactly like Abby, and strange events begin to unsettle him.
Best for: Psychological thriller fans who enjoy remote settings and a missing wife mystery
Beautiful Ugly is #22 on BookWard's Best Books of 2025, out of 30 2025 books that cleared our data bar.
What Beautiful Ugly is about
Grady Green was once a successful author, and now his wife Abby has disappeared. Seeking distance from everything, he retreats to a remote Scottish island, where unsettling things begin to happen. Then he meets a woman who looks exactly like Abby. Alice Feeney's psychological thriller plays with identity and isolation, and asks how much a person can trust what they see when they are alone and grieving. It suits readers who like a tense, atmospheric mystery set far from help.
Beautiful Ugly on the Best Books of 2025
Beautiful Ugly came out in 2025. Of the 30 books first published in 2025 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #22 on our Best Books of 2025 list.
Why it made the list: 300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 5,681 views a month recently. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
Nearby on the 2025 list
- The Knight and the Moth Rachel Gillig, #20
- Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor, #21
- The Emperor of Gladness Ocean Vuong, #23
- The Rose Field Philip Pullman, #24
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 38 want to read it, 2 are reading it now and 5 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Wikipedia: its article averaged 5,681 views a month recently.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 90 | 45% |
| Reader love | 23 | 20% |
| Being read right now | 73 | 15% |
| Attention | 47 | 20% |
Questions about Beautiful Ugly
When was Beautiful Ugly published?
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney was first published in 2025.
Was Beautiful Ugly one of the best books of 2025?
Beautiful Ugly is #22 on BookWard's Best Books of 2025, out of 30 2025 books that cleared our data bar. 300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 5,681 views a month recently.
Why is Beautiful Ugly on the Best Books of 2025 list?
300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 5,681 views a month recently.
More of the best books of 2025
- The Secret of Secrets Dan Brown, #1
- Katabasis R. F. Kuang, #2
- Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid, #3
- Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros, #4
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Eliezer Yudkowsky, #5
- Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy, #6
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How we know
This page uses public data: Open Library reader counts and ratings, and Wikipedia page views for recent years. The description is paraphrased from real source text. Rankings reflect reading interest, not quality or sales, and can be affected by data gaps. Lists update monthly.
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