The Greatest Fantasy 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
7701 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones 2025 American English
8703 What We Can Know Ian McEwan 2025 Unknown English
8864 Death Of The Author Nnedi Okorafor 2025 Unknown English
8874 Tongues Anders Nilsen 2025 American English
8981 Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil V. E. Schwab 2025 Unknown English
8984 Sunrise On The Reaping Suzanne Collins 2025 Unknown English
9057 The Book Of Records Madeleine Thien 2025 Canadian English
9081 The Dream Hotel Laila Lalami 2025 Unknown English
10162 The Devils Joe Abercrombie 2025 British English
10172 The Antidote Karen Russell 2025 Unknown English
10189 Katabasis R. F. Kuang 2025 Unknown English
10399 An Oral History Of Atlantis Ed Park 2025 Unknown English
10413 The Wayfinder Adam Johnson 2025 American English
10522 Terrestrial History Joe Mungo Reed 2025 British English
10558 Helm Sarah Hall 2025 English English
10666 The Hounding Xenobe Purvis 2025 Unknown English
10680 The Bewitching Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2025 Mexican English
10683 Automatic Noodle Annalee Newitz 2025 American English
10711 Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite 2025 Nigerian English
11015 Gifted & Talented Olivie Blake 2025 American English
12074 The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow 2025 Unknown English
12107 Good And Evil And Other Stories Samanta Schweblin 2025 Argentine Spanish
12105 Dwelling Emily Hunt Kivel 2025 Unknown English
12110 North Sun Ethan Rutherford 2025 Unknown English
12126 The Pelican Child Joy Williams 2025 Unknown English
12133 A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna 2025 Unknown English
12234 Rules For Ruin Mimi Matthews 2025 American English
12319 Angel Down Daniel Kraus 2025 American English
12403 The Great Work Sheldon Costa 2025 Unknown English
12421 A Mouthful Of Dust Nghi Vo 2025 American English
12435 Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros 2025 Unknown English
12443 Hungerstone Kat Dunn 2025 Unknown English
12444 When The Moon Hits Your Eye John Scalzi 2025 Unknown English
12451 The Possession Of Alba Díaz Isabel Cañas 2025 Unknown English
12452 My Name Is Emilia Del Valle Isabel Allende 2025 Unknown English
12465 Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang 2025 Unknown English
12473 The Experiment Rebecca Stead 2025 Unknown English
12474 I, Medusa Ayana Gray 2025 Unknown English
12476 The Manor Of Dreams Christina Li 2025 Unknown 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
12507 The Survivor Wants To Die At The End Adam Silvera 2025 American English
12555 The Night Birds Christopher Golden 2025 American English
12556 Hansel And Gretel Stephen King, Maurice Sendak 2025 American English
12566 Meet Me At The Crossroads Megan Giddings 2025 American English
12571 Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2025 American English
12573 When They Burned The Butterfly Wen-yi Lee 2025 Taiwanese English
12581 The Last Tiger Julia Riew, Brad Riew 2025 American English
12605 Psychopomp & Circumstance Eden Royce 2025 American English
12608 After Life Gayle Forman 2025 American English
12615 The Expert Of Subtle Revisions Kirsten Menger-Anderson 2025 American English
12616 Sounds Like Love Ashley Poston 2025 American English
12623 The Island Of Last Things Emma Sloley 2025 Unknown English
12635 The Garden Nick Newman 2025 British English
12638 Animal Instinct Amy Shearn 2025 American English
12679 Audition For The Fox Martin Cahill 2025 Unknown English
12693 Scarlet Morning ND Stevenson 2025 American English
12708 Time Loops & Meet Cutes Jackie Lau 2025 Unknown English
12709 Beasts Of Carnaval Rosália Rodrigo 2025 Unknown English
12717 The Door On The Sea Caskey Russell 2025 American English
12718 A Feast For The Eyes Alex Crespo 2025 Unknown English
12756 Crumble Meredith McClaren, Andrea Bell 2025 Unknown English
12769 Blood On Her Tongue Johanna van Veen 2025 Unknown English
12770 The Burial Tide Neil Sharpson 2025 Unknown English
12774 The Confessional Paige Hender 2025 Unknown English
12775 The Country Under Heaven Frederic S. Durbin 2025 American English
12778 Drome Jesse Lonergan 2025 Unknown English
12822 The Starving Saints Caitlin Starling 2025 Unknown English
12823 Witchcraft For Wayward Girls Grady Hendrix 2025 Unknown English
12826 King Sorrow Joe Hill 2025 Unknown English
12827 Silver Elite Dani Francis 2025 Unknown English
12828 Bat Eater And Other Names For Cora Zeng Kylie Lee Baker 2025 Unknown English
12829 Harriet Tubman Bob the Drag Queen 2025 Unknown English
12830 Of Monsters And Mainframes Barbara Truelove 2025 Unknown English
12889 Pan Michael Clune 2025 American English
12933 The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie 2025 British English
12976 Lessons In Magic And Disaster Charlie Jane Anders 2025 Unknown Unknown
12990 All That We See Or Seem Ken Liu 2025 American English
13053 Engines Of War R.S. Ford 2025 Unknown English
13056 Female Fantasy Iman Hariri-Kia 2025 Iranian English
13062 The Blackfire Blade James Logan 2025 Unknown English
13065 Aunt Tigress Emily Yu-Xuan Qin 2025 Unknown English
13074 The Isle In The Silver Sea Tasha Suri 2025 British English
13189 Blob Maggie Su 2025 Unknown English
13190 These Memories Do Not Belong To Us Yiming Ma 2025 Unknown English
13201 Awakened A.E. Osworth 2025 Unknown English
13111 The Conjuring Of America Lindsey Stewart 2025 Unknown English
13168 Dracula & Daughters Emma Carroll 2025 British English
13169 Deep Dark Zohra Nabi 2025 Unknown English
13170 Torchfire Moira Buffini 2025 British English
13185 The Witch's Egg Donya Todd 2025 Unknown English
17117 Anima Rising Christopher Moore 2025 American English
17117 Twice Mitch Albom 2025 American English