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Best Book You've Read in 2025? (literature.cafe)
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Now that 2025 is ending what has been your favorite book you've read in the last year?

Mine is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (audiobook is the way to go!)

Lesser known: Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle. Satire Horror. It was a fun ride.

All Sinners Bleed (mystery noir) by S.A. Cosby and My Friends by Frederik Backman are also my notable mentions

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[–] barkingspiders 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My favorite "book" this year was Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Omnibus which is a collection of a couple of his books. The world building, physics, vast timelines and very human characters really did it for me. I still love Ian Bank's Culture Series more but the Xeelee Sequence has been a lot of fun, highly recommend (if you're into sci-fi).

Honorable mention goes to Charles Stross, I finally read his Accelerando and while it didn't trip my trigger as much I felt like it really captured something of our current zeitgeist and had a lot of great moments that will stick in my head for a while.