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
12381 For An Ecology Of Images Peter Szendy 2025 French English
12383 The Dazzling Paget Sisters Ariane Bankes 2025 Unknown English
12390 Television Lauren Rothery 2025 Unknown English
12393 Little Lazarus Michael Bible 2025 American English
10017 Mending Bodies Hon Lai-Chu 2010 Chinese Chinese
11480 Overstaying Ariane Koch 2021 Unknown English
12394 State Champ Hilary Plum 2025 American English
12395 Helen Of Nowhere Makenna Goodman 2025 American English
12396 The Time Of The Novel Lara Mimosa Montes 2025 Unknown English
6184 Fish Tales Nettie Jones 1983 American English
2231 Mafalda Quino 1978 Argentinian Spanish
8426 Sad Tiger Neige Sinno 2023 Unknown French
12403 The Road To Tender Hearts Annie Hartnett 2025 Unknown English
11018 Gifted & Talented Olivie Blake 2025 American English
12404 The Great Work Sheldon Costa 2025 Unknown English
11341 The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy, Frank Wynne 2020 Argentine Spanish
11496 Ultramarine Mariette Navarro, Eve Hill-Agnus 2021 Unknown French
12406 True Mistakes Lena Moses-Schmitt 2025 Unknown English
12408 The Scrapbook Heather Clark 2025 Unknown English
12409 The House On Buzzards Bay Dwyer Murphy 2025 American English
12410 Fools For Love Helen Schulman 2025 American English
12125 The Season Helen Garner 2024 Australian English
12419 Ripeness Sarah Moss 2025 British English
12421 Herculine Grace Byron 2025 Unknown English
12422 A Mouthful Of Dust Nghi Vo 2025 American English
12423 The Queen Of Swords Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney 2025 Mexican English
12424 The Lord Soraya Antonius 2025 Unknown English
11035 Empire Of Ai Karen Hao 2025 American English
12428 The Good Liar Denise Mina 2025 Scottish English
12429 To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler 2025 American English
12430 Born In Flames Bench Ansfield 2025 Unknown English
12431 Capitalism Sven Beckert 2025 American English
12433 The Gods Of New York Jonathan Mahler 2025 American English
12434 Night Watch Kevin Young 2025 American English
12435 The Technological Republic Alexander C. Karp Unknown English
10491 Remember Us To Life Joanna Rubin Dranger 2022 Unknown English
12436 Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros 2025 Unknown English
12440 Liquid Mariam Rahmani 2025 Unknown English
11039 First Time Caller B.K. Borison 2025 Unknown English
11040 Who Is Government? Michael M. Lewis 2025 Unknown English
12444 Hungerstone Kat Dunn 2025 Unknown English
12445 When The Moon Hits Your Eye John Scalzi 2025 Unknown English
12447 Julie Chan Is Dead Liann Zhang 2025 Unknown English
12448 Three Days In June Anne Tyler 2025 Unknown English
11401 The Living and the Rest José Eduardo Agualusa 2020 Angolan Portuguese
12452 The Possession Of Alba Díaz Isabel Cañas 2025 Unknown English
12453 My Name Is Emilia Del Valle Isabel Allende 2025 Unknown English
12454 Among Friends Hal Ebbott 2025 Unknown English
12457 So Far Gone Jess Walter 2025 Unknown English
12459 Marble Hall Murders Anthony Horowitz 2025 British English
12460 This Book Will Bury Me Ashley Winstead 2025 Unknown English
12461 Harlem Rhapsody Victoria Christopher Murray 2025 Unknown English
12462 The Inheritance Trisha Sakhlecha 2025 Unknown English
12463 El Dorado Drive Megan Abbott 2025 Unknown English
12464 Something Rotten Andrew Lipstein 2025 Unknown English
12465 Kakigori Summer Emily Itami 2025 Unknown English
12466 Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang 2025 Unknown English
12467 I See You've Called In Dead John Kenney 2025 Unknown English
12468 The Note Alafair Burke 2025 American English
12472 Helen Of Troy, 1993 Maria Zoccola 2025 Unknown English
12474 The Experiment Rebecca Stead 2025 Unknown English
12475 I, Medusa Ayana Gray 2025 Unknown English
12476 Blood In The Water Tiffany D. Jackson 2025 Unknown English
12477 The Manor Of Dreams Christina Li 2025 Unknown English
12479 Poets Square Courtney Gustafson 2025 Unknown English
12484 Looking At Women Looking At War Victoria Amelina 2025 Ukrainian English
12486 Secret Lives Of The Dead Tim Lebbon 2025 British English
12488 When The Wolf Comes Home Nat Cassidy 2025 Unknown English
12489 The Raven Scholar Antonia Hodgson 2025 Unknown English
12490 They Bloom At Night Trang Thanh Tran 2025 Unknown English
12491 Hemlock & Silver T. Kingfisher 2025 American English
12492 Black Woods Blue Sky Eowyn Ivey 2025 Unknown English
12493 Old Soul Susan Barker 2025 Unknown English
12494 The Eyes Of Gaza Plestia Alaqad 2025 Unknown English
12182 The Place Of Tides James Rebanks 2024 Unknown English
12497 Loved One Aisha Muharrar 2025 Unknown English
12498 No More Tears Gardiner Harris 2025 American English
12499 Girl Dinner Olivie Blake 2025 American English
12502 The Savage, Noble Death Of Babs Dionne Ron Currie Jr. 2025 American English
9644 Heart Lamp Banu Mushtaq 2024 Unknown English
11834 These Days Lucy Caldwell 2022 British English
12505 Twelve Post War Tales Graham Swift 2025 British English
12506 Universality Natasha Brown 2025 British English
12507 The City Changes Its Face Eimear McBride 2025 Irish English
12508 The Survivor Wants To Die At The End Adam Silvera 2025 American English
12509 All Of Us Murderers K.J. Charles 2025 British English
12510 Spread Me Sarah Gailey 2025 American English
12512 Dream On Shannon Hale, Marcela Cespedes American English
12513 Every Monday Mabel Jashar Awan Unknown English
12546 Pilgrim Codex Vivian Mansour, Emmanuel Valtierra, Carlos Rodríguez Cortez Unknown English
12547 This Might Surprise You Hayley Gullen Unknown English
12548 Picks And Shovels Cory Doctorow 2025 Canadian English
12549 Song So Wild And Blue Paul Lisicky 2025 American English
12551 Sex Of The Midwest Robyn Ryle American English
12552 A World Without Summer Nicholas Day, Yas Imamura Unknown English
12554 My Presentation Today Is About The Anaconda Bibi Dumon Tak, Annemarie van Haeringen, Nancy Forest-Flier Dutch Dutch
12555 Where You're Planted Melanie Sweeney 2025 Unknown English
12556 The Night Birds Christopher Golden 2025 American English
12557 Hansel And Gretel Stephen King, Maurice Sendak 2025 American English
12558 Salsa Daddy Rick Martinez Unknown English
12559 Courtroom Drama Neely Tubati Alexander 2025 Unknown English
12560 The Stalker Paula Bomer 2025 American English
12561 Cry For Me, Argentina Tamara Yajia 2025 American English
12562 The Migrant Rain Falls In Reverse Vinh Nguyen 2025 Unknown English
12563 Breakneck Dan Wang Unknown English
12564 History Matters David McCullough, Dorie McCullough Lawson, Michael Hill American English
12565 Dinner Meera Sodha British English
12567 Meet Me At The Crossroads Megan Giddings 2025 American English
12568 No Fault Haley Mlotek 2025 Canadian English
12569 American Grammar Jarvis R. Givens American English
12571 Patchwork Kate Evans English
12572 Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2025 American English
12574 When They Burned The Butterfly Wen-yi Lee 2025 Taiwanese English
12577 Good Movies As Old Books Matt Stevens Unknown English
12578 The Voice Of Blood Gabriela Rábago Palafox, M. Elizabeth Ginway, Enrique Muñoz-Mantas Unknown Unknown
12579 The Aviator And The Showman Laurie Gwen Shapiro American English
12580 Never Thought I'd End Up Here Ann Liang 2025 Unknown English
12581 Long Day? Cook This. Justin Tsang Canadian English
12582 The Last Tiger Julia Riew, Brad Riew 2025 American English
12585 Kirby's Lessons For Falling Laura Gao 2025 American English