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
12074 The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow 2025 Unknown English
12075 Great Big Beautiful Life Emily Henry 2025 American English
12080 The Ten Year Affair Erin Somers 2025 Unknown English
12082 Perfect Victims Mohammed El-Kurd 2025 Unknown English
12102 Vantage Point Sara Sligar 2025 Unknown English
12104 Promise Me Sunshine Cara Bastone 2025 Unknown English
12105 Dwelling Emily Hunt Kivel 2025 Unknown English
12107 Good And Evil And Other Stories Samanta Schweblin 2025 Argentine Spanish
12108 American Kings Seth Wickersham 2025 American English
12109 Valley Of Forgetting Jennie Erin Smith 2025 American English
12110 North Sun Ethan Rutherford 2025 Unknown English
12114 Great Black Hope Rob Franklin 2025 Unknown English
12115 Joyride Susan Orlean 2025 American English
10885 My Friends Fredrik Backman 2025 Unknown English
10888 Everything Is Tuberculosis John Green 2025 Unknown English
12117 Glitz, Glam, And A Damn Good Time Jennifer Wright 2025 American English
12119 Culpability Bruce Holsinger 2025 Unknown English
12121 Toni At Random Dana A. Williams 2025 American English
12124 The Zorg Siddharth Kara 2025 Unknown English
12126 The Pelican Child Joy Williams 2025 Unknown English
12127 Bad Company Megan Greenwell 2025 American English
12128 Storyteller Leo Damrosch 2025 American English
9989 On The Calculation Of Volume 3 Solvej Balle 2021 Unknown Danish
10721 Melting Point Rachel Cockerell 2024 Unknown English
12132 Awake Jen Hatmaker 2025 American English
12133 A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna 2025 Unknown English
12135 The Book Of Alchemy Suleika Jaouad 2025 Unknown English
6819 Killing Stella Marlen Haushofer 1958 Austrian German
12139 August Lane Regina Black 2025 Unknown English
11640 The Colony Annika Norlin, Alice E. Olsson 2023 Swedish English
11205 The Tokyo Suite Bruna Dantas Lobato, Giovana Madalosso 2020 Brazilian English
10863 The Broken King Michael Thomas 2017 Unknown English
11057 The Remembered Soldier Anjet Daanje 2019 Dutch Dutch
12142 Gertrude Stein Francesca Wade 2025 British English
12144 Venetian Vespers John Banville 2025 Irish English
12146 The Perfect Tuba Sam Quinones 2025 American English
12153 Red Scare Clay Risen 2025 American English
12154 Is A River Alive? Robert Macfarlane 2025 British English
12156 Dead And Alive Zadie Smith 2025 British English
12157 Capitalism And Its Critics John Cassidy 2025 British English
10919 Mark Twain Ron Chernow 2025 American English
12160 Searches Vauhini Vara 2025 Unknown English
12161 The Original Nell Stevens 2025 British English
12164 Little Bosses Everywhere Bridget Read 2025 Unknown English
12166 Mood Machine Liz Pelly 2025 Unknown English
11931 The Land In Winter Andrew Miller 2024 British English
11072 Your Steps On The Stairs Antonio Muñoz Molina, Curtis Bauer 2019 Spanish English
12167 Elita Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum 2025 American English
12168 Indignity Lea Ypi 2025 Unknown English
11935 Wolf Bells Leni Zumas 2024 American English
12169 Trip Amie Barrodale 2025 American English
12170 Tom's Crossing Mark Z. Danielewski 2025 American English
12171 The Finest Hotel In Kabul Lyse Doucet 2025 Canadian English
12173 The Catch Yrsa Daley-Ward 2025 British English
12175 The Cia Book Club Charlie English 2025 British English
12177 A S L Jeanne Thornton 2025 American English
12179 I'll Tell You When I'm Home Hala Alyan 2025 American English
12181 Pick A Color Souvankham Thammavongsa 2025 Canadian English
12183 Mothers And Sons Adam Haslett 2025 American English
12186 The Rest Of Our Lives Benjamin Markovits 2025 American English
12192 People Like Us Jason Mott 2025 American English
12193 Necessary Fiction Eloghosa Osunde 2025 Nigerian English
9806 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
12196 Water Mirror Echo Jeff Chang 2025 American English
11824 The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken 2023 Danish English
12199 The Old Man By The Sea Domenico Starnone 2025 Italian English
12205 Apple In China Patrick McGee 2025 Unknown English
12207 Playworld Adam Ross 2025 Unknown English
12208 All Consuming Ruby Tandoh 2025 British English
6990 House Of Day, House Of Night Olga Tokarczuk 1998 Polish Polish
12209 Girls Play Dead Jen Percy 2025 American English
12210 Something From Nothing Alison Roman 2025 American English
3818 Poems Of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney 1966 Irish English
7633 The Golden Road William Dalrymple 2024 Unknown English
12214 Good Dirt Charmaine Wilkerson 2025 Unknown English
12215 A Tropical Rebel Gets The Duke Adriana Herrera 2025 Unknown English
12220 The Afterlife Of Malcolm X Mark Whitaker 2025 Unknown English
12222 The Three Lives Of Cate Kay Kate Fagan 2025 Unknown English
11835 I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness Irene Solà 2023 Unknown Catalan
12223 Nothing More Of This Land Joseph Lee Unknown English
12230 Vulture Phoebe Greenwood 2025 Unknown English
12233 The Killing Fields Of East New York Stacy Horn 2025 American English
12234 Rules For Ruin Mimi Matthews 2025 American English
12237 Mercy Joan Silber 2025 American English
8877 Tongues Anders Nilsen 2025 American English
12238 The Uncool Cameron Crowe 2025 American English
12240 The Pretender Jo Harkin 2025 British English
12242 Wreck Catherine Newman 2025 American English
12243 Cannon Lee Lai 2025 Australian English
12245 Photographic Memory Bill Griffith 2025 American English
12038 Ginseng Roots Craig Thompson 2024 American English
12285 The Waterbearers Sasha Bonét 2025 Unknown English
12287 Where Are You Really From Elaine Hsieh Chou 2025 American English
12288 The Librarians Sherry Thomas 2025 American English
12291 Blessings And Disasters Alexis Okeowo 2025 American English
12292 Strangers And Intimates Tiffany Jenkins 2025 British English
12293 Precious Rubbish Kayla E. 2025 Unknown English
12294 A Silent Treatment Jeannie Vanasco 2025 American English
12295 The Payback Kashana Cauley 2025 American English
12296 The Martians David Baron 2025 Unknown English
12297 Troublemaker Carla Kaplan 2025 American English
12299 The Intermediaries Brandy Schillace 2025 American English
12300 Languages Of Home John Edgar Wideman 2025 American English
12303 In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee 2025 American English
12304 1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin 2025 Unknown English
12305 The Last Supper Paul Elie 2025 American English
12308 The Hollow Half Sarah Aziza 2025 Unknown English
12311 Twist Colum McCann 2025 Irish English
12314 The Names Florence Knapp 2025 Unknown English
12316 Electric Spark Frances Wilson 2025 British English
12318 Replaceable You Mary Roach 2025 American English
10861 Wild Thing Sue Prideaux 2024 Unknown English
12320 Angel Down Daniel Kraus 2025 American English
12321 Will There Ever Be Another You Patricia Lockwood 2025 American English
12322 Worsted Garielle Lutz 2025 American English
12323 Sympathy Tower Tokyo Rie Qudan 2025 Japanese Unknown
12324 Your Name Here Helen DeWitt, Ilya Gridneff 2025 American English
12378 Service John Tottenham 2025 Unknown English
12380 New Paltz, New Paltz Mike Powell 2025 Unknown English
11476 Someone To Watch Over You Kumi Kimura 2021 Unknown English