I’d be glad to share my top 3 2025 reads but I’d like to do so without having to create an account or link to Google for authentication.

Yep, I've got a plan to eventually look at how we can do that, while still protecting the system from bots/spam (of which there are a lot).

It is a challenge. For now, we need it behind a login system. We try to make it as easy as possible, since most people have a Google account.