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
12925 Second Life Amanda Hess 2025 Unknown English
12926 They Poisoned The World Mariah Blake 2025 American English
12927 True Nature Lance Richardson 2025 Unknown English
12928 Amity Nathan Harris 2025 American English
12929 God And Sex Jon Raymond 2025 American English
12930 The Satisfaction Café Kathy Wang 2025 Unknown English
12931 Six Weeks By The Sea Paula Byrne 2025 British English
12932 Some Bright Nowhere Ann Packer 2025 American English
12046 Strange And Perfect Account From The Permafrost Donald Niedekker 2022 Unknown Dutch; flemish
12933 Tartufo Kira Jane Buxton 2025 Unknown English
12934 Un World Jayson Greene 2025 American Unknown
12935 Now Jazz Now Neneh Cherry, Thurston Moore, Joe McPhee, Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson American Unknown
12936 The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie 2025 British English
12937 Do Admit Mimi Pond 2025 American English
12938 A Mind Of My Own Kathy Burke 2025 British English
12939 Clam Down Anelise Chen 2025 American English
12940 No Obvious Distress Amanda Quaid 2025 Unknown English
12942 The Names Andrew Knapp 2025 Unknown English
11499 Hunter Shuang Xuetao 2019 Chinese Chinese
12943 Attention Anne Enright 2025 Irish English
12944 Big Kiss, Bye Bye Claire-Louise Bennett 2025 Irish English
12945 Jesus Christ Kinski Benjamin Myers 2025 British English
12946 Show Don't Tell Curtis Sittenfeld 2025 Unknown English
12947 The Silver Book Olivia Laing 2025 British English
12948 Good Anger Sam Parker 2025 British English
12950 Exterminate Regenerate John Higgs 2025 British English
12951 The Gossip Columnist's Daughter Peter Orner 2025 American English
12952 Sick And Dirty Michael Koresky 2025 American English
12953 Lost In The Dark And Other Excursions John Langan 2025 American English
12954 Wild Cities Chris Fitch 2025 British English
12955 Moderation Elaine Castillo 2025 American English
12956 I Want To Burn This Place Down Maris Kreizman 2025 American English
12236 Original Sin Jake Tapper 2023 American English
12957 Clown Town Mick Herron 2025 British Unknown
12237 I Deliver Parcels In Beijing Hu Anyan 2023 Chinese English
10961 The Lack Of Light Nino Haratischwili 2014 German German
12958 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands 2025 British English
12959 The Revolutionists Jason Burke 2025 British English
12960 The Age Of Diagnosis Suzanne O'Sullivan 2025 Irish English
12961 Crick Professor Matthew Cobb 2025 British English
12962 Ends Of The Earth Neil Shubin 2025 American English
12963 Matriarch Tina Knowles, Kevin Carr O'Leary 2025 American English
12964 Sky Daddy Kate Folk 2025 Unknown English
12965 The Edge Of Water Olufunke Grace Bankole 2025 Nigerian English
12966 Good Girl Aria Aber 2025 American English
10884 Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave Mariana Enriquez 2013 Argentine Spanish
12967 Dominion Addie E. Citchens 2025 Unknown English
12968 Beings Ilana Masad 2025 American English
12969 Alligator Tears Edgar Gomez 2025 Unknown English
12970 Uncanny Valley Girls Zefyr Lisowski 2025 Unknown English
1326 The Compleat Angler Izaak Walton 1653 British English
6302 Rejection Tony Tulathimutte 2024 American English
12240 Things Become Other Things Craig Mod 2023 Unknown English
4383 How To End A Story Helen Garner 2021 Australian English
12971 Hunchback Saou Ichikawa 2025 Unknown Unknown
12242 Brother Brontë Fernando A. Flores 2023 Unknown English
12972 The Listeners Maggie Stiefvater 2025 Unknown Unknown
12973 When We Were Real Daryl Gregory 2025 American Unknown
10852 Strange Pictures Uketsu 2022 Unknown Unknown
12974 Once Was Willem M. R. Carey 2025 Unknown Unknown
12975 Fundamentally Nussaibah Younis 2025 Unknown Unknown
11306 Run For The Hills Kevin Wilson 2025 Unknown English
12976 The Death Of Us Abigail Dean 2025 Unknown Unknown
12977 Boustany Sami Tamimi 2025 Unknown Unknown
12978 The Idea Of An Entire Life Billy-Ray Belcourt Canadian English
12979 Lessons In Magic And Disaster Charlie Jane Anders 2025 Unknown Unknown
11640 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
12980 How I Cook Ben Lippett 2025 British English
12981 Ungovernable Simon Hart 2025 Unknown Unknown
12982 The Dentist Tim Sullivan 2025 British Unknown
12983 Seascraper Benjamin Wood 2025 British Unknown
12567 Shattered Hanif Kureishi 2024 British English
12984 The Impossible Thing Belinda Bauer 2025 British Unknown
12985 The Ghosts Of Rome Joseph O’Connor 2025 Irish Unknown
12986 Beartooth Callan Wink 2025 American Unknown
12987 Chokepoints Fishman, Edward 2025 Unknown English
12988 Why Nothing Works Marc J. Dunkelman 2025 American English
12989 The Hour Of The Predator Giuliano da Empoli 2025 Unknown English
12990 If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Eliezer Yudkowsky 2025 American English
12991 The Philosopher In The Valley Michael Steinberger 2025 American English
8953 The Man Who Died Seven Times Yasuhiko Nishizawa 1995 Japanese Japanese
12992 The Poisoned King Rundell, Katherine 2025 British English
12993 All That We See Or Seem Ken Liu 2025 American English
12994 All The Way To The River Elizabeth Gilbert 2025 American English
12995 Boleyn Traitor Philippa Gregory 2025 English English
12996 The Colonel And The King Peter Guralnick 2025 American English
12997 Crush Ada Calhoun 2025 American English
12998 Dead Money Jakob Kerr 2025 Unknown English
12999 Gemini Jeffrey Kluger 2025 American English
13000 Gingko Season Naomi Xu Elegant American English
13001 Gwyneth Amy Odell 2025 American English
13003 Hostage Eli Sharabi Unknown Unknown
12571 A Language Of Limbs Dylin Hardcastle 2024 Unknown English
13004 Mỹ Documents Kevin Nguyen 2025 Vietnamese English
13005 O Sinners! Nicole Cuffy 2025 Unknown English
13007 Other People’s Houses Clare Mackintosh British English
13008 Primordial Mai Der Vang American English
13009 The Quiet Ear Raymond Antrobus British English
13011 Saving Five Amanda Nguyen 2025 American English
13012 Scorched Earth Tiana Clark American English
13013 Stay Dead Natalie Shapero American English
13014 Sweet Heat Bolu Babalola 2025 British English
13015 The Tell Amy Griffin 2025 Unknown English
13016 The Trouble Of Color Martha S. Jones 2025 American English
12574 The Corporation In The 21st Century John Kay 2024 British English
13017 House Of Huawei Eva Dou 2025 American English
13018 The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt 2025 Unknown English
13020 Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick 2025 Unknown English
13021 The Genius Myth Helen Lewis 2025 British English
13022 Lone Wolf Adam Weymouth 2025 Unknown English
13023 Why Q Needs U Danny Bate 2025 Unknown English
12069 Archipelago Of The Sun Yoko Tawada 2022 Unknown English
13024 Once The Deed Is Done Rachel Seiffert 2025 British English
13025 Caribe Keshia Sakarah 2025 Unknown English
13026 Chesnok Polina Chesnakova 2025 Russian English
13027 The Complete Illustrated Guide To Japanese Cooking Sachiyo Harada 2025 Unknown English
13028 Fusão Ixta Belfrage 2025 Unknown English
13029 Italopunk Vanja van der Leeden 2025 Unknown English
13030 Allies At War Tim Bouverie 2025 British English
13032 The Illegals Shaun Walker 2025 British English