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
12923 Second Life Amanda Hess 2025 Unknown English
12924 They Poisoned The World Mariah Blake 2025 American English
12925 True Nature Lance Richardson 2025 Unknown English
12926 Amity Nathan Harris 2025 American English
12927 God And Sex Jon Raymond 2025 American English
12928 The Satisfaction Café Kathy Wang 2025 Unknown English
12929 Six Weeks By The Sea Paula Byrne 2025 British English
12930 Some Bright Nowhere Ann Packer 2025 American English
12044 Strange And Perfect Account From The Permafrost Donald Niedekker 2022 Unknown Dutch; flemish
12931 Tartufo Kira Jane Buxton 2025 Unknown English
12932 Un World Jayson Greene 2025 American Unknown
12933 Now Jazz Now Neneh Cherry, Thurston Moore, Joe McPhee, Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson American Unknown
12934 The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie 2025 British English
12935 Do Admit Mimi Pond 2025 American English
12936 A Mind Of My Own Kathy Burke 2025 British English
12937 Clam Down Anelise Chen 2025 American English
12938 No Obvious Distress Amanda Quaid 2025 Unknown English
12940 The Names Andrew Knapp 2025 Unknown English
11497 Hunter Shuang Xuetao 2019 Chinese Chinese
12941 Attention Anne Enright 2025 Irish English
12942 Big Kiss, Bye Bye Claire-Louise Bennett 2025 Irish English
12943 Jesus Christ Kinski Benjamin Myers 2025 British English
12944 Show Don't Tell Curtis Sittenfeld 2025 Unknown English
12945 The Silver Book Olivia Laing 2025 British English
12946 Good Anger Sam Parker 2025 British English
12948 Exterminate Regenerate John Higgs 2025 British English
12949 The Gossip Columnist's Daughter Peter Orner 2025 American English
12950 Sick And Dirty Michael Koresky 2025 American English
12951 Lost In The Dark And Other Excursions John Langan 2025 American English
12952 Wild Cities Chris Fitch 2025 British English
12953 Moderation Elaine Castillo 2025 American English
12954 I Want To Burn This Place Down Maris Kreizman 2025 American English
12235 Original Sin Jake Tapper 2023 American English
12955 Clown Town Mick Herron 2025 British Unknown
12236 I Deliver Parcels In Beijing Hu Anyan 2023 Chinese English
10957 The Lack Of Light Nino Haratischwili 2014 German German
12956 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands 2025 British English
12957 The Revolutionists Jason Burke 2025 British English
12958 The Age Of Diagnosis Suzanne O'Sullivan 2025 Irish English
12959 Crick Professor Matthew Cobb 2025 British English
12960 Ends Of The Earth Neil Shubin 2025 American English
12961 Matriarch Tina Knowles, Kevin Carr O'Leary 2025 American English
12962 Sky Daddy Kate Folk 2025 Unknown English
12963 The Edge Of Water Olufunke Grace Bankole 2025 Nigerian English
12964 Good Girl Aria Aber 2025 American English
10880 Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave Mariana Enriquez 2013 Argentine Spanish
12965 Dominion Addie E. Citchens 2025 Unknown English
12966 Beings Ilana Masad 2025 American English
12967 Alligator Tears Edgar Gomez 2025 Unknown English
12968 Uncanny Valley Girls Zefyr Lisowski 2025 Unknown English
1326 The Compleat Angler Izaak Walton 1653 British English
6301 Rejection Tony Tulathimutte 2024 American English
12239 Things Become Other Things Craig Mod 2023 Unknown English
4381 How To End A Story Helen Garner 2021 Australian English
12969 Hunchback Saou Ichikawa 2025 Unknown Unknown
12241 Brother Brontë Fernando A. Flores 2023 Unknown English
12970 The Listeners Maggie Stiefvater 2025 Unknown Unknown
12971 When We Were Real Daryl Gregory 2025 American Unknown
12063 Strange Pictures Uketsu 2022 Unknown Unknown
12972 Once Was Willem M. R. Carey 2025 Unknown Unknown
12973 Fundamentally Nussaibah Younis 2025 Unknown Unknown
11302 Run For The Hills Kevin Wilson 2025 Unknown English
12974 The Death Of Us Abigail Dean 2025 Unknown Unknown
12975 Boustany Sami Tamimi 2025 Unknown Unknown
12976 The Idea Of An Entire Life Billy-Ray Belcourt Canadian English
12977 Lessons In Magic And Disaster Charlie Jane Anders 2025 Unknown Unknown
11638 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
12978 How I Cook Ben Lippett 2025 British English
12979 Ungovernable Simon Hart 2025 Unknown Unknown
12980 The Dentist Tim Sullivan 2025 British Unknown
12981 Seascraper Benjamin Wood 2025 British Unknown
12566 Shattered Hanif Kureishi 2024 British English
12982 The Impossible Thing Belinda Bauer 2025 British Unknown
12983 The Ghosts Of Rome Joseph O’Connor 2025 Irish Unknown
12984 Beartooth Callan Wink 2025 American Unknown
12985 Chokepoints Fishman, Edward 2025 Unknown English
12986 Why Nothing Works Marc J. Dunkelman 2025 American English
12987 The Hour Of The Predator Giuliano da Empoli 2025 Unknown English
12988 If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Eliezer Yudkowsky 2025 American English
12989 The Philosopher In The Valley Michael Steinberger 2025 American English
8952 The Man Who Died Seven Times Yasuhiko Nishizawa 1995 Japanese Japanese
12990 The Poisoned King Rundell, Katherine 2025 British English
12991 All That We See Or Seem Ken Liu 2025 American English
12992 All The Way To The River Elizabeth Gilbert 2025 American English
12993 Boleyn Traitor Philippa Gregory 2025 English English
12994 The Colonel And The King Peter Guralnick 2025 American English
12995 Crush Ada Calhoun 2025 American English
12996 Dead Money Jakob Kerr 2025 Unknown English
12997 Gemini Jeffrey Kluger 2025 American English
12998 Gingko Season Naomi Xu Elegant American English
12999 Gwyneth Amy Odell 2025 American English
13001 Hostage Eli Sharabi Unknown Unknown
12570 A Language Of Limbs Dylin Hardcastle 2024 Unknown English
13002 Mỹ Documents Kevin Nguyen 2025 Vietnamese English
13003 O Sinners! Nicole Cuffy 2025 Unknown English
13005 Other People’s Houses Clare Mackintosh British English
13006 Primordial Mai Der Vang American English
13007 The Quiet Ear Raymond Antrobus British English
13009 Saving Five Amanda Nguyen 2025 American English
13010 Scorched Earth Tiana Clark American English
13011 Stay Dead Natalie Shapero American English
13012 Sweet Heat Bolu Babalola 2025 British English
13013 The Tell Amy Griffin 2025 Unknown English
13014 The Trouble Of Color Martha S. Jones 2025 American English
12573 The Corporation In The 21st Century John Kay 2024 British English
13015 House Of Huawei Eva Dou 2025 American English
13016 The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt 2025 Unknown English
13018 Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick 2025 Unknown English
13019 The Genius Myth Helen Lewis 2025 British English
13020 Lone Wolf Adam Weymouth 2025 Unknown English
13021 Why Q Needs U Danny Bate 2025 Unknown English
12068 Archipelago Of The Sun Yoko Tawada 2022 Unknown English
13022 Once The Deed Is Done Rachel Seiffert 2025 British English
13023 Caribe Keshia Sakarah 2025 Unknown English
13024 Chesnok Polina Chesnakova 2025 Russian English
13025 The Complete Illustrated Guide To Japanese Cooking Sachiyo Harada 2025 Unknown English
13026 Fusão Ixta Belfrage 2025 Unknown English
13027 Italopunk Vanja van der Leeden 2025 Unknown English
13028 Allies At War Tim Bouverie 2025 British English
13030 The Illegals Shaun Walker 2025 British English