Best Books of 2025

These are the best books I've read in 2025.  In order to make  the list, the book has to be highly recommended.  The order reflects the order in which I would recommend this group of particularly good books.  The list reflects books read in 2025, not books released or written in 2025.

Fiction

1. Blood Over Bright Haven, M. L. Wang
2. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
3. Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky
4. All These Worlds, Dennis E. Taylor
5. A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett
6. Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky
7. The Witchwood Crown, Tad Williams
8. The Spinning Heart, Donal Ryan
9. The Land in Winter, Andrew Miller

Non-Fiction

1. Open Socrates, Agnes Callard
2. The Ideological Brain, Leor Zmigrod
3. Gender Trouble, Judith Butler
4. Nobody's Girl, Virginia Roberts Guiffre
5. The Big Myth, Oreskes and Conway
6. Bad Company, Megan Greenwell
7. Erasing History, Jason Stanley
8. 1177 B.C., Eric H. Cline
9. The Weight of Nature, Clayton Page Aldern
10. The Philosophy of Epictetus, Scaltsas and Mason
11. The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan