The Greatest Books of 2025

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
12456 So Far Gone Jess Walter 2025 Unknown English
12458 Marble Hall Murders Anthony Horowitz 2025 British English
12459 This Book Will Bury Me Ashley Winstead 2025 Unknown English
12460 Harlem Rhapsody Victoria Christopher Murray 2025 Unknown English
12461 The Inheritance Trisha Sakhlecha 2025 Unknown English
12462 El Dorado Drive Megan Abbott 2025 Unknown English
12463 Something Rotten Andrew Lipstein 2025 Unknown English
12464 Kakigori Summer Emily Itami 2025 Unknown English
12465 Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang 2025 Unknown English
12466 I See You've Called In Dead John Kenney 2025 Unknown English
12467 The Note Alafair Burke 2025 American English
12471 Helen Of Troy, 1993 Maria Zoccola 2025 Unknown English
12473 The Experiment Rebecca Stead 2025 Unknown English
12474 I, Medusa Ayana Gray 2025 Unknown English
12475 Blood In The Water Tiffany D. Jackson 2025 Unknown English
12476 The Manor Of Dreams Christina Li 2025 Unknown English
12478 Poets Square Courtney Gustafson 2025 Unknown English
12483 Looking At Women Looking At War Victoria Amelina 2025 Ukrainian English
12485 Secret Lives Of The Dead Tim Lebbon 2025 British English
12487 When The Wolf Comes Home Nat Cassidy 2025 Unknown English
12488 The Raven Scholar Antonia Hodgson 2025 Unknown English
12489 They Bloom At Night Trang Thanh Tran 2025 Unknown English
12490 Hemlock & Silver T. Kingfisher 2025 American English
12491 Black Woods Blue Sky Eowyn Ivey 2025 Unknown English
12492 Old Soul Susan Barker 2025 Unknown English
12493 The Eyes Of Gaza Plestia Alaqad 2025 Unknown English
12496 Loved One Aisha Muharrar 2025 Unknown English
12497 No More Tears Gardiner Harris 2025 American English
12498 Girl Dinner Olivie Blake 2025 American English
12501 The Savage, Noble Death Of Babs Dionne Ron Currie Jr. 2025 American English
12504 Twelve Post War Tales Graham Swift 2025 British English
12505 Universality Natasha Brown 2025 British English
12506 The City Changes Its Face Eimear McBride 2025 Irish English
12507 The Survivor Wants To Die At The End Adam Silvera 2025 American English
12508 All Of Us Murderers K.J. Charles 2025 British English
12509 Spread Me Sarah Gailey 2025 American English
12547 Picks And Shovels Cory Doctorow 2025 Canadian English
12548 Song So Wild And Blue Paul Lisicky 2025 American English
12554 Where You're Planted Melanie Sweeney 2025 Unknown English
12555 The Night Birds Christopher Golden 2025 American English
12556 Hansel And Gretel Stephen King, Maurice Sendak 2025 American English
12558 Courtroom Drama Neely Tubati Alexander 2025 Unknown English
12559 The Stalker Paula Bomer 2025 American English
12560 Cry For Me, Argentina Tamara Yajia 2025 American English
12561 The Migrant Rain Falls In Reverse Vinh Nguyen 2025 Unknown English
12566 Meet Me At The Crossroads Megan Giddings 2025 American English
12567 No Fault Haley Mlotek 2025 Canadian English
12571 Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2025 American English
12573 When They Burned The Butterfly Wen-yi Lee 2025 Taiwanese English
12579 Never Thought I'd End Up Here Ann Liang 2025 Unknown English
12581 The Last Tiger Julia Riew, Brad Riew 2025 American English
12584 Kirby's Lessons For Falling Laura Gao 2025 American English
12603 Strata Laura Poppick 2025 Unknown English
12605 Psychopomp & Circumstance Eden Royce 2025 American English
12608 After Life Gayle Forman 2025 American English
12609 If You Love It, Let It Kill You Hannah Pittard 2025 American English
12610 Too Soon Betty Shamieh 2025 American English
12611 Whale Eyes James Robinson, Brian Rea 2025 Unknown English
12614 The Very Heart Of It Thomas Mallon 2025 American English
12615 The Expert Of Subtle Revisions Kirsten Menger-Anderson 2025 American English
12616 Sounds Like Love Ashley Poston 2025 American English
12618 We Computers Hamid Ismailov, Shelley Fairweather-Vega 2025 Unknown English
12621 Unshrunk Laura Delano 2025 American English
12622 People Of Means Nancy Johnson 2025 Unknown English
12623 The Island Of Last Things Emma Sloley 2025 Unknown English
12626 Don't Trust Fish Dan Santat, Neil Sharpson 2025 American English
12629 The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman 2025 British English
12633 A New New Me Helen Oyeyemi 2025 British English
12635 The Garden Nick Newman 2025 British English
12637 Once Upon A Time In Dollywood Ashley Jordan 2025 American English
12638 Animal Instinct Amy Shearn 2025 American English
12646 Save Me, Stranger Erika Krouse 2025 American English
12651 Desi Arnaz Todd S. Purdum 2025 American English
12653 On Muscle Bonnie Tsui 2025 American English
12678 The Secret History Of The Rape Kit Pagan Kennedy 2025 American English
12679 Audition For The Fox Martin Cahill 2025 Unknown English
12685 Friends To Lovers Sally Blakely 2025 Unknown English
12686 Fireblooms Alexandra Villasante 2025 American English
12688 This Beautiful, Ridiculous City Kay Sohini 2025 Unknown English
12689 Florenzer Phil Melanson 2025 Unknown English
12693 Scarlet Morning ND Stevenson 2025 American English
12694 You Didn't Hear This From Me Kelsey McKinney 2025 American English
12697 The Devil Reached Toward The Sky Garrett M. Graff 2025 American English
12703 Actress Of A Certain Age Jeff Hiller 2025 American English
12708 Time Loops & Meet Cutes Jackie Lau 2025 Unknown English
12709 Beasts Of Carnaval Rosália Rodrigo 2025 Unknown English
12710 The Compound Aisling Rawle 2025 Unknown English
12714 The Princess And The P.I. Nikki Payne 2025 Canadian English
12715 Oasis Guojing 2025 Chinese English
12717 The Door On The Sea Caskey Russell 2025 American English
12718 A Feast For The Eyes Alex Crespo 2025 Unknown English
12720 Notes To John Joan Didion 2025 American English
12721 Tomorrow Is Yesterday Hussein Agha, Robert Malley 2025 American English
12744 Last Chance Live! Helena Haywoode Henry 2025 Unknown English
12747 A Rare Find Joanna Lowell 2025 Unknown English
12749 The Naming Of The Birds Paraic O'Donnell 2025 Irish English
12755 On Guard! Cassidy Wasserman 2025 Unknown English
12756 Crumble Meredith McClaren, Andrea Bell 2025 Unknown English
12757 All The Other Mothers Hate Me Sarah Harman 2025 Unknown English
12762 How To Share An Egg Bonny Reichert 2025 Unknown English
12765 The Appalachian Sea Steve Scafidi 2025 American English
12766 The Art Spy Michelle Young 2025 Unknown English
12768 Black Arms To Hold You Up Ben Passmore 2025 American English
12769 Blood On Her Tongue Johanna van Veen 2025 Unknown English
12770 The Burial Tide Neil Sharpson 2025 Unknown English
12773 Children Of Radium Joe Dunthorne 2025 Welsh English
12774 The Confessional Paige Hender 2025 Unknown English
12775 The Country Under Heaven Frederic S. Durbin 2025 American English
12776 Dead Girl Cameo M. Mick Powell 2025 Unknown English
12778 Drome Jesse Lonergan 2025 Unknown English
12779 The End Is The Beginning Jill Bialosky 2025 American English
12780 The Forgotten Sense Jonas Olofsson 2025 Unknown English
12781 Good Things Samin Nosrat 2025 American English
12782 Groceries Nora Claire Miller 2025 Unknown English
12783 I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always Douglas Kearney 2025 American English
12784 Integrated Noliwe Rooks 2025 American English
12786 The Jailhouse Lawyer Calvin Duncan, Sophie Cull 2025 Unknown English
12787 The Jamaica Kollection Of The Shante Dream Arkive Marcia Douglas 2025 Jamaican English
12788 The Last Guy On Earth Sarina Bowen 2025 American English
12789 The Trouble With Anna Rachel Griffiths 2025 Unknown English