Best Fiction Books 2025 Goodreads Best Fiction. We’re over halfway through 2025 and we at the book review have already written about hundreds of books. Matt haig, author of the midnight library, returns with another existentially inspiring adventure—this time in ibiza!—with the life impossible.

Here, i’ve pulled out some. The judges of the walter scott prize aim to highlight the very best new historical novels, and in 2025 they have settled on a varied shortlist featuring a trinidadian tragedy, a.