The Greatest Books of 2025 - Honorable Mention

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This is honorable mention lists of greatest books of 2025. The original list of the top 100 is here: https://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/1088. This list are the books ranked 101 and after. This list is ranked

This list was originally published in 2025 and was added to this site 7 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
12075 The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow 2025 Unknown English
12076 Great Big Beautiful Life Emily Henry 2025 American English
12081 The Ten Year Affair Erin Somers 2025 Unknown English
12083 Perfect Victims Mohammed El-Kurd 2025 Unknown English
12103 Vantage Point Sara Sligar 2025 Unknown English
12105 Promise Me Sunshine Cara Bastone 2025 Unknown English
12106 Dwelling Emily Hunt Kivel 2025 Unknown English
12108 Good And Evil And Other Stories Samanta Schweblin 2025 Argentine Spanish
12109 American Kings Seth Wickersham 2025 American English
12110 Valley Of Forgetting Jennie Erin Smith 2025 American English
12111 North Sun Ethan Rutherford 2025 Unknown English
12115 Great Black Hope Rob Franklin 2025 Unknown English
12116 Joyride Susan Orlean 2025 American English
10889 My Friends Fredrik Backman 2025 Unknown English
10892 Everything Is Tuberculosis John Green 2025 Unknown English
12118 Glitz, Glam, And A Damn Good Time Jennifer Wright 2025 American English
12120 Culpability Bruce Holsinger 2025 Unknown English
12122 Toni At Random Dana A. Williams 2025 American English
12125 The Zorg Siddharth Kara 2025 Unknown English
12127 The Pelican Child Joy Williams 2025 Unknown English
12128 Bad Company Megan Greenwell 2025 American English
12129 Storyteller Leo Damrosch 2025 American English
9992 On The Calculation Of Volume 3 Solvej Balle 2021 Unknown Danish
10724 Melting Point Rachel Cockerell 2024 Unknown English
12133 Awake Jen Hatmaker 2025 American English
12134 A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna 2025 Unknown English
12136 The Book Of Alchemy Suleika Jaouad 2025 Unknown English
6819 Killing Stella Marlen Haushofer 1958 Austrian German
12140 August Lane Regina Black 2025 Unknown English
11642 The Colony Annika Norlin, Alice E. Olsson 2023 Swedish English
11209 The Tokyo Suite Bruna Dantas Lobato, Giovana Madalosso 2020 Brazilian English
10867 The Broken King Michael Thomas 2017 Unknown English
11061 The Remembered Soldier Anjet Daanje 2019 Dutch Dutch
12143 Gertrude Stein Francesca Wade 2025 British English
12145 Venetian Vespers John Banville 2025 Irish English
12147 The Perfect Tuba Sam Quinones 2025 American English
12154 Red Scare Clay Risen 2025 American English
12155 Is A River Alive? Robert Macfarlane 2025 British English
12157 Dead And Alive Zadie Smith 2025 British English
12158 Capitalism And Its Critics John Cassidy 2025 British English
10923 Mark Twain Ron Chernow 2025 American English
12161 Searches Vauhini Vara 2025 Unknown English
12162 The Original Nell Stevens 2025 British English
12165 Little Bosses Everywhere Bridget Read 2025 Unknown English
12167 Mood Machine Liz Pelly 2025 Unknown English
11933 The Land In Winter Andrew Miller 2024 British English
11076 Your Steps On The Stairs Antonio Muñoz Molina, Curtis Bauer 2019 Spanish English
12168 Elita Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum 2025 American English
12169 Indignity Lea Ypi 2025 Unknown English
11937 Wolf Bells Leni Zumas 2024 American English
12170 Trip Amie Barrodale 2025 American English
12171 Tom's Crossing Mark Z. Danielewski 2025 American English
12172 The Finest Hotel In Kabul Lyse Doucet 2025 Canadian English
12174 The Catch Yrsa Daley-Ward 2025 British English
12176 The Cia Book Club Charlie English 2025 British English
12178 A S L Jeanne Thornton 2025 American English
12180 I'll Tell You When I'm Home Hala Alyan 2025 American English
12182 Pick A Color Souvankham Thammavongsa 2025 Canadian English
12184 Mothers And Sons Adam Haslett 2025 American English
12187 The Rest Of Our Lives Benjamin Markovits 2025 American English
12193 People Like Us Jason Mott 2025 American English
12194 Necessary Fiction Eloghosa Osunde 2025 Nigerian English
9808 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
12197 Water Mirror Echo Jeff Chang 2025 American English
11826 The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken 2023 Danish English
12200 The Old Man By The Sea Domenico Starnone 2025 Italian English
12206 Apple In China Patrick McGee 2025 Unknown English
12208 Playworld Adam Ross 2025 Unknown English
12209 All Consuming Ruby Tandoh 2025 British English
6990 House Of Day, House Of Night Olga Tokarczuk 1998 Polish Polish
12210 Girls Play Dead Jen Percy 2025 American English
12211 Something From Nothing Alison Roman 2025 American English
3818 Poems Of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney 1966 Irish English
7634 The Golden Road William Dalrymple 2024 Unknown English
12215 Good Dirt Charmaine Wilkerson 2025 Unknown English
12216 A Tropical Rebel Gets The Duke Adriana Herrera 2025 Unknown English
12221 The Afterlife Of Malcolm X Mark Whitaker 2025 Unknown English
12223 The Three Lives Of Cate Kay Kate Fagan 2025 Unknown English
11837 I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness Irene Solà 2023 Unknown Catalan
12224 Nothing More Of This Land Joseph Lee Unknown English
12231 Vulture Phoebe Greenwood 2025 Unknown English
12234 The Killing Fields Of East New York Stacy Horn 2025 American English
12235 Rules For Ruin Mimi Matthews 2025 American English
12238 Mercy Joan Silber 2025 American English
8878 Tongues Anders Nilsen 2025 American English
12239 The Uncool Cameron Crowe 2025 American English
12241 The Pretender Jo Harkin 2025 British English
12243 Wreck Catherine Newman 2025 American English
12244 Cannon Lee Lai 2025 Australian English
12246 Photographic Memory Bill Griffith 2025 American English
12040 Ginseng Roots Craig Thompson 2024 American English
12286 The Waterbearers Sasha Bonét 2025 Unknown English
12288 Where Are You Really From Elaine Hsieh Chou 2025 American English
12289 The Librarians Sherry Thomas 2025 American English
12292 Blessings And Disasters Alexis Okeowo 2025 American English
12293 Strangers And Intimates Tiffany Jenkins 2025 British English
12294 Precious Rubbish Kayla E. 2025 Unknown English
12295 A Silent Treatment Jeannie Vanasco 2025 American English
12296 The Payback Kashana Cauley 2025 American English
12297 The Martians David Baron 2025 Unknown English
12298 Troublemaker Carla Kaplan 2025 American English
12300 The Intermediaries Brandy Schillace 2025 American English
12301 Languages Of Home John Edgar Wideman 2025 American English
12304 In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee 2025 American English
12305 1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin 2025 Unknown English
12306 The Last Supper Paul Elie 2025 American English
12309 The Hollow Half Sarah Aziza 2025 Unknown English
12312 Twist Colum McCann 2025 Irish English
12315 The Names Florence Knapp 2025 Unknown English
12317 Electric Spark Frances Wilson 2025 British English
12319 Replaceable You Mary Roach 2025 American English
10865 Wild Thing Sue Prideaux 2024 Unknown English
12321 Angel Down Daniel Kraus 2025 American English
12322 Will There Ever Be Another You Patricia Lockwood 2025 American English
12323 Worsted Garielle Lutz 2025 American English
12324 Sympathy Tower Tokyo Rie Qudan 2025 Japanese Unknown
12325 Your Name Here Helen DeWitt, Ilya Gridneff 2025 American English
12379 Service John Tottenham 2025 Unknown English
12381 New Paltz, New Paltz Mike Powell 2025 Unknown English
11478 Someone To Watch Over You Kumi Kimura 2021 Unknown English