The 100 Greatest Books of 2025
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The Greatest Books, 100 Books
This list is aggregated from many lists by various sources by The Greatest Books Since this is an aggregation of many 2025 specific lists, I am using a voter count of 150
This list was originally published in 2025 and was added to this site 7 months ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8396 | Audition | Katie Kitamura | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 8419 | One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This | Omar El Akkad | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 8431 | Heart The Lover | Lily King | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9978 | A Guardian And A Thief | Megha Majumdar | 2025 | Indian | English | |
| 9997 | Baldwin | Nicholas Boggs | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 4939 | Stone Yard Devotional | Charlotte Wood | 2023 | Australian | English | |
| 9584 | The Director | Daniel Kehlmann | 2023 | German | English | |
| 10054 | A Truce That Is Not Peace | Miriam Toews | 2025 | Canadian | English | |
| 8312 | A Marriage At Sea | Sophie Elmhirst | 2024 | British | English | |
| 7154 | The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny | Kiran Desai | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10084 | The Wilderness | Angela Flournoy | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10098 | A Flower Traveled In My Blood | Haley Cohen Gilliland | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10114 | Flashlight | Susan Choi | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10129 | Shadow Ticket | Thomas Pynchon | 2025 | American | English | |
| 8626 | Things In Nature Merely Grow | Yiyun Li | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10173 | The Antidote | Karen Russell | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 8650 | Raising Hare | Chloe Dalton | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10190 | Katabasis | R. F. Kuang | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 7702 | The Buffalo Hunter Hunter | Stephen Graham Jones | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10212 | The Slip | Lucas Schaefer | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 8707 | What We Can Know | Ian McEwan | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10228 | We The People | Jill Lepore | 2025 | American | English | |
| 8724 | King Of Ashes | S. A. Cosby | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9599 | Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico | 2022 | Italian | Italian | |
| 10285 | There Is No Place For Us | Brian Goldstone | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10295 | Murderland | Caroline Fraser | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 7743 | Flesh | David Szalay | 2025 | British | English | |
| 8783 | Mother Mary Comes To Me | Arundhati Roy | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10364 | Isola | Allegra Goodman | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10376 | The Correspondent | Virginia Evans | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10388 | Girl On Girl | Sophie Gilbert | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10394 | Memorial Days | Geraldine Brooks | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10401 | An Oral History Of Atlantis | Ed Park | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10406 | Dark Renaissance | Stephen Greenblatt | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10415 | The Wayfinder | Adam Johnson | 2025 | American | English | |
| 8867 | Death Of The Author | Nnedi Okorafor | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9935 | The Sisters | Jonas Hassen Khemiri | 2023 | Swedish | English | |
| 10445 | Buckeye | Patrick Ryan | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10489 | The Fate Of The Day | Rick Atkinson | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10497 | Heartwood | Amity Gaige | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 7735 | Stag Dance | Torrey Peters | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10510 | Motherland | Julia Ioffe | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10519 | Ruth | Kate Riley | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10523 | Endling | Maria Reva | 2025 | Canadian | English | |
| 10526 | Terrestrial History | Joe Mungo Reed | 2025 | British | English | |
| 10536 | The Emperor Of Gladness | Ocean Vuong | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10538 | Careless People | Sarah Wynn-Williams | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 7929 | Abundance | Ezra Klein | 2025 | American | English | |
| 8984 | Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil | V. E. Schwab | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 8987 | Sunrise On The Reaping | Suzanne Collins | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10562 | Helm | Sarah Hall | 2025 | English | English | |
| 10567 | Palaver | Bryan Washington | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10575 | Mother Emanuel | Kevin Sack | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10578 | Strangers In The Land | Michael Luo | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10581 | The South | Tash Aw | 2025 | Malaysian | English | |
| 10584 | Claire McCardell | Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10588 | Fresh, Green Life | Sebastian Castillo | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10590 | Deep House | Jeremy Atherton Lin | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10596 | The Harder I Fight The More I Love You | Neko Case | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10599 | Book Of Lives | Margaret Atwood | 2025 | Canadian | English | |
| 10602 | Black Moses | Caleb Gayle | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10605 | When It All Burns | Jordan Thomas | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10610 | King Of Kings | Scott Anderson | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10621 | Dream State | Eric Puchner | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10624 | Crumb | Dan Nadel | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10627 | Fair Play | Louise Hegarty | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9061 | The Book Of Records | Madeleine Thien | 2025 | Canadian | English | |
| 10639 | Bug Hollow | Michelle Huneven | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10640 | Black In Blues | Imani Perry | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10647 | Bread Of Angels | Patti Smith | 2025 | American | English | |
| 8522 | The True True Story Of Raja The Gullible | Rabih Alameddine | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10651 | The White Hot | Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10652 | Lonely Crowds | Stephanie Wambugu | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10659 | Paper Girl | Beth Macy | 2025 | American | English | |
| 9085 | The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10663 | Buckley | Sam Tanenhaus | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10665 | Lorne | Susan Morrison | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10667 | Maggie; Or, A Man And A Woman Walk Into A Bar | Katie Yee | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10670 | The Hounding | Xenobe Purvis | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10673 | These Summer Storms | Sarah MacLean | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10676 | Spent | Alison Bechdel | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10678 | John & Paul | Ian Leslie | 2025 | British | English | |
| 8651 | Victorian Psycho | Virginia Feito | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9102 | Tilt | Emma Pattee | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10684 | The Bewitching | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 2025 | Mexican | English | |
| 10687 | Automatic Noodle | Annalee Newitz | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10690 | Daughters Of The Bamboo Grove | Barbara Demick | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10693 | The Tragedy Of True Crime | John J. Lennon | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10695 | How To Dodge A Cannonball | Dennard Dayle | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9106 | Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10700 | Atmosphere | Taylor Jenkins Reid | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10703 | I Regret Almost Everything | Keith McNally | 2025 | British | English | |
| 10704 | Dream Count | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10706 | Bring The House Down | Charlotte Runcie | 2025 | Scottish | English | |
| 3472 | We Do Not Part | Han Kang | 2021 | Korean | Korean | |
| 10710 | The Dry Season | Melissa Febos | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10713 | Paradise Logic | Sophie Kemp | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10715 | Cursed Daughters | Oyinkan Braithwaite | 2025 | Nigerian | English | |
| 10717 | The Beast In The Clouds | Nathalia Holt | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10718 | Minor Black Figures | Brandon Taylor | 2025 | Unknown | English |