My favourite SFF of 2025

These books weren’t necessarily published this year, some of them are quite old, but they are books I’ve read, enjoyed and reviewed this year.

Fiction

• The Trials of Empire, by Richard Swan
• The House of Frost and Flowers, by Lauren Wiesebron
• The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Symbiote, by Michael Nayak
• Days of Shattered Faith, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Last Blade Priest, by W.P. Wiles
• The Cure, by Eve Smith
• The Way Up Is Death, by Dan Hanks
• UESI, by Karl Drinkwater
• Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Judas Blossom, by Stephan Aryan
• Into The Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant
• A Rebel’s History of Mars, by Nadia Afifi
• A Necromancer Called Gam Gam, by Adam Holcombe
• Limelight and other stories, by Lyndsey Croal
• A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
• The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
• Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz
• Terms of Service, by Ciel Pierlot
• Queen of the Dead, by Sarah Broadway
• Stone & Sky, by Ben Aaronovitch
• The Raven Scholar, by Antonia Hodgson
• Dead Silence, by S.A. Barnes

Podcasts

• The Holmwood Foundation
• Monstrous Agonies

Non-Fiction

• Spec Fic For Newbies, by Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan