Sci-Fi Books I read in 2025

November 26, 2025

Sci-Fi Books I read in 2025

Books I read:

Hail Mary

Probably the best books I ever read. They make a movie from it now.

Artemis

Also good, but a weird writing style. Also, the action was a bit unrelatable to me.

Pilot X

Skipped it after a couple of pages. Too many characters introduced too fast.

Beacon 23

Solid book. Great writing style. I had to laugh out loud a couple of times. Small story, well executed. Great inner monologues.

Dead Lake (Tricky's Tales Book 1)

Great idea with the dog-like species - but after a bit it went too weird. Skipped it 20% in.

Seven Eves

Neal Stephenson's masterpiece. Never enjoyed a book like this so much. I would place it higher than Hail Mary even.

The Life Engineered

Okay book. A bit hard to grasp as it played entirely in a weird galactic robot world.

Other non-sci-fi books

  • Billion Dollar Whale. Very captivating.
  • American Kingpin. Such a crazy story. Good read

On my TODO list

  • Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
  • Pierce Brown: Red rising series
  • Robert Charles Wilson: Spin trilogy, with Axis (the second) published in 2007 and Vortex, 2011
  • Ubik (Philip K. Dick.)
  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • The Three-Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin
  • Blindsight by Peter Watts
  • Stephenson: Anathem, The Diamond Age for near-future nanotech
  • Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Rise (Future Worlds, 1) -- Brian Guthrie