r/suggestmeabook · 2025
Top books in r/suggestmeabook during 2025
Ranked by mentions in r/suggestmeabook threads dated 2025. Useful for spotting what r/suggestmeabook was picking up or putting down that year.
#1 Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
A high-school teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there and one job left: save Earth.
#2 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)
Martha Wells
A security robot hacks its own governor module, gains free will, and spends its days streaming soap operas instead of killing anyone.
#3 Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Two aging Texas Rangers drive a stolen cattle herd a thousand miles north, hauling four decades of friendship and regret with them.
#4 Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
An Appalachian foster kid narrates his own life from birth through the opioid epidemic, and dares you to call it fiction.
#5 East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Two families retrace Cain and Abel across three generations in California's Salinas Valley, and one brother begs God to make him good.
#6 Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A man alone in an endless house of statues and tides slowly realizes he isn't who the House says he is.
#7 The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
A framed sailor rots in an island prison for fourteen years, escapes with a fortune, and spends the rest of the book collecting on every debt of vengeance.
#8 Red Rising
Pierce Brown
A miner's son fakes his way into the ruling class's brutal war-games academy to bring down the system that executed his wife.
#9 The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien
A gardener, a burglar's heir, and seven others walk a piece of jewelry to a volcano because destroying it is the only way to stop a war.
#10 Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
A man with a low IQ undergoes surgery that turns him into a genius, and has to watch the intelligence, and everyone's honesty, fade back out.
#11 The Martian
Andy Weir
A botanist gets left for dead on Mars and has to grow food on a planet that wants him gone, one duct-taped fix at a time.
#12 The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
A burglar with no interest in adventure gets talked into robbing a dragon by a wizard who never quite explains the plan.
#13 11/22/63
Stephen King
A substitute teacher steps through a diner pantry into 1958 with one job: stop Lee Harvey Oswald before Dallas.
#14 Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
A widowed janitor and a giant Pacific octopus solve a decades-old disappearance neither of them meant to get involved in.
#15 Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
A street thief gets recruited into a heist crew plotting to overthrow a god-emperor who has ruled unchallenged for a thousand years.
#16 The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
An aging butler drives across England to see an old colleague, insisting the whole way that he has no regrets about the life, or love, he didn't choose.
#17 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Earth gets demolished for a hyperspace bypass minutes after a man's house is demolished for a road, and his best friend turns out to be an alien with a towel.
#18 Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
A minor bureaucrat rewrites history for a living until the Party decides his private thoughts are the real problem.
#19 The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
A woman searches a dying continent for the daughter her husband stole, while the world ends again on schedule.
#20 Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
An orphaned governess falls for her brooding employer, then finds out exactly what he's been hiding in the attic.
#21 Dune
Frank Herbert
A duke's son survives his family's betrayal on a desert planet and becomes the prophet who leads its people to war.
#22 Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet spends five sisters, one entailed estate, and one insufferably proud man learning she judged him wrong.
#23 The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
A master builder fights to raise a cathedral across decades of English civil war, treachery, and a prior who might be the only honest man in the country.
#24 The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
A buttoned-up caseworker is sent to inspect an orphanage of six magical children, one of them the literal Antichrist, and has to decide whether the rulebook is wrong.
#25 A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
A prideful young mage summons a nameless shadow to prove his power, then spends years learning to face it instead of running.