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
7702 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones 2025 American English
8707 What We Can Know Ian McEwan 2025 Unknown English
8868 Death Of The Author Nnedi Okorafor 2025 Unknown English
8878 Tongues Anders Nilsen 2025 American English
8985 Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil V. E. Schwab 2025 Unknown English
8988 Sunrise On The Reaping Suzanne Collins 2025 Unknown English
9062 The Book Of Records Madeleine Thien 2025 Canadian English
9086 The Dream Hotel Laila Lalami 2025 Unknown English
10166 The Devils Joe Abercrombie 2025 British English
10177 The Antidote Karen Russell 2025 Unknown English
10194 Katabasis R. F. Kuang 2025 Unknown English
10404 An Oral History Of Atlantis Ed Park 2025 Unknown English
10418 The Wayfinder Adam Johnson 2025 American English
10528 Terrestrial History Joe Mungo Reed 2025 British English
10564 Helm Sarah Hall 2025 English English
10672 The Hounding Xenobe Purvis 2025 Unknown English
10686 The Bewitching Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2025 Mexican English
10689 Automatic Noodle Annalee Newitz 2025 American English
10717 Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite 2025 Nigerian English
11021 Gifted & Talented Olivie Blake 2025 American English
12075 The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow 2025 Unknown English
12108 Good And Evil And Other Stories Samanta Schweblin 2025 Argentine Spanish
12106 Dwelling Emily Hunt Kivel 2025 Unknown English
12111 North Sun Ethan Rutherford 2025 Unknown English
12127 The Pelican Child Joy Williams 2025 Unknown English
12134 A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna 2025 Unknown English
12235 Rules For Ruin Mimi Matthews 2025 American English
12321 Angel Down Daniel Kraus 2025 American English
12405 The Great Work Sheldon Costa 2025 Unknown English
12423 A Mouthful Of Dust Nghi Vo 2025 American English
12437 Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros 2025 Unknown English
12445 Hungerstone Kat Dunn 2025 Unknown English
12446 When The Moon Hits Your Eye John Scalzi 2025 Unknown English
12453 The Possession Of Alba Díaz Isabel Cañas 2025 Unknown English
12454 My Name Is Emilia Del Valle Isabel Allende 2025 Unknown English
12467 Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang 2025 Unknown English
12475 The Experiment Rebecca Stead 2025 Unknown English
12476 I, Medusa Ayana Gray 2025 Unknown English
12478 The Manor Of Dreams Christina Li 2025 Unknown English
12489 When The Wolf Comes Home Nat Cassidy 2025 Unknown English
12490 The Raven Scholar Antonia Hodgson 2025 Unknown English
12491 They Bloom At Night Trang Thanh Tran 2025 Unknown English
12492 Hemlock & Silver T. Kingfisher 2025 American English
12493 Black Woods Blue Sky Eowyn Ivey 2025 Unknown English
12494 Old Soul Susan Barker 2025 Unknown English
12509 The Survivor Wants To Die At The End Adam Silvera 2025 American English
12557 The Night Birds Christopher Golden 2025 American English
12558 Hansel And Gretel Stephen King, Maurice Sendak 2025 American English
12568 Meet Me At The Crossroads Megan Giddings 2025 American English
12573 Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2025 American English
12575 When They Burned The Butterfly Wen-yi Lee 2025 Taiwanese English
12583 The Last Tiger Julia Riew, Brad Riew 2025 American English
12607 Psychopomp & Circumstance Eden Royce 2025 American English
12610 After Life Gayle Forman 2025 American English
12617 The Expert Of Subtle Revisions Kirsten Menger-Anderson 2025 American English
12618 Sounds Like Love Ashley Poston 2025 American English
12625 The Island Of Last Things Emma Sloley 2025 Unknown English
12637 The Garden Nick Newman 2025 British English
12640 Animal Instinct Amy Shearn 2025 American English
12681 Audition For The Fox Martin Cahill 2025 Unknown English
12695 Scarlet Morning ND Stevenson 2025 American English
12710 Time Loops & Meet Cutes Jackie Lau 2025 Unknown English
12711 Beasts Of Carnaval Rosália Rodrigo 2025 Unknown English
12719 The Door On The Sea Caskey Russell 2025 American English
12720 A Feast For The Eyes Alex Crespo 2025 Unknown English
12758 Crumble Meredith McClaren, Andrea Bell 2025 Unknown English
12771 Blood On Her Tongue Johanna van Veen 2025 Unknown English
12772 The Burial Tide Neil Sharpson 2025 Unknown English
12776 The Confessional Paige Hender 2025 Unknown English
12777 The Country Under Heaven Frederic S. Durbin 2025 American English
12780 Drome Jesse Lonergan 2025 Unknown English
12824 The Starving Saints Caitlin Starling 2025 Unknown English
12825 Witchcraft For Wayward Girls Grady Hendrix 2025 Unknown English
12828 King Sorrow Joe Hill 2025 Unknown English
12829 Silver Elite Dani Francis 2025 Unknown English
12830 Bat Eater And Other Names For Cora Zeng Kylie Lee Baker 2025 Unknown English
12831 Harriet Tubman Bob the Drag Queen 2025 Unknown English
12832 Of Monsters And Mainframes Barbara Truelove 2025 Unknown English
12891 Pan Michael Clune 2025 American English
12936 The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie 2025 British English
12979 Lessons In Magic And Disaster Charlie Jane Anders 2025 Unknown Unknown
12993 All That We See Or Seem Ken Liu 2025 American English
13056 Engines Of War R.S. Ford 2025 Unknown English
13059 Female Fantasy Iman Hariri-Kia 2025 Iranian English
13065 The Blackfire Blade James Logan 2025 Unknown English
13068 Aunt Tigress Emily Yu-Xuan Qin 2025 Unknown English
13077 The Isle In The Silver Sea Tasha Suri 2025 British English
13192 Blob Maggie Su 2025 Unknown English
13193 These Memories Do Not Belong To Us Yiming Ma 2025 Unknown English
13204 Awakened A.E. Osworth 2025 Unknown English
13114 The Conjuring Of America Lindsey Stewart 2025 Unknown English
13171 Dracula & Daughters Emma Carroll 2025 British English
13172 Deep Dark Zohra Nabi 2025 Unknown English
13173 Torchfire Moira Buffini 2025 British English
13188 The Witch's Egg Donya Todd 2025 Unknown English
17159 Anima Rising Christopher Moore 2025 American English
17159 Twice Mitch Albom 2025 American English