Whether you want to gaze into the future or explore outer space, science fiction is a genre that’s going places. This year offered a slew of speculation and wonder, but before we step forward into the future, let’s travel back through the last twelve months of stunning sci-fi reads.
This year, the winner of the She Reads Best Science Fiction of 2025 Award is:
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
From the Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Binti, comes an unusual, meta tale that blends science fiction with a reflection on storytelling itself. Zelu, a struggling writer whose work has seen little success, loses everything and decides to write a story just for herself. In so doing, she creates a novel that shoots her to superstardom, but it does far more than that. It has far reaching impact on humanity and the technological future ahead.
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And don’t miss out on the rest of our favorite sci-fi reads from 2025!
Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
Maggie is a wife faced with the reality of her husbands failing memory and watching the life she knew slip away. But when a man named Hassan arrives to inform her that her husband isn’t losing his memory, the memories are being stolen, she must work with this stranger to explore the depths of her husband’s mind and solve the mystery of what he’s kept hidden there. Reality begins to slip away and whether or not Hassan can be trusted is a lingering question as she fights to know and retrieve the man she’s loved.
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Luminous by Silvia Park
Set in a near-future, unified Korea, three siblings will be forced together after years of estrangement. When they were young, Jun and Morgan’s father invented a humanoid robot, Yoyo. Though his destiny was darker, his warmth and their connection to him was genuine. Now, Morgan works in robotics, Jun investigates robot crimes and Yoyo has been discovered in a trash heap by an 11-year-old girl, shoving them into a family reunion none of them are prepared for.
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Silver Elite by Dani Francis
This series kickoff was a mysterious addition to the 2025 reader zeitgeist. From a pen name that had us guessing, to a splashy marketing campaign, to the question: Is dystomance a thing? We all got curious about this one. Wren has been honing her psychic ability and helping the rebellion in a society where that can get you killed. When she’s forced into an elite military program, it’s her chance to work behind enemy lines. But the secrets she’s keeping will struggle to stay buried, especially when she’s falling for the enemy.
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The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
In a Minority Report-esque future, monitoring dreams tells an agency the likelihood of a person to commit a crime. Sara has just been informed that she is in immediate risk of harming her beloved husband. Sent to a retention facility, her three-week stay turns into months. Held captive with other women trying to prove their innocence, hope seems lost until a new inmate arrives and changes the course of Sara’s life and incarceration.
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The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton
From the author of Mickey7—now a feature film starring Robert Pattinson—comes a fresh standalone novel. Dalton has been chosen to represent humanity in Unity, an organization that claims to unite all sentient species in brotherhood, but so far, he’s not convinced. He’s only met a giant, self-serving snail and his human companion, Neera. But when he encounters an actual unifying organization, the Assembly, allegiances get confused, alien morality is a constant question and whether or not Neera is plotting to kill her is always on the table.
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The Memory Collectors by Dete Meserve
What would this list be without at least one time travel novel? Four strangers are coping with both their guilt and their regret, each having an event they wish they could undo in the past. Now, AEON is offering them a chance to revisit the past for one hour, not to make changes, just to reconcile and reminisce. But when they get stuck there for longer, not only will they discover there’s more to their own stories than they knew, but also, all four of their histories are intertwined, and a potentially deadly force is working against them.
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We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler
In a walled city an all-powerful AI rewards sacrifice and the privileged Sainted rule. But when a fellow Sainted is murdered and the AI erases all record of it, Enita and Nix are thrust into a dangerous uprising .
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
New York Times bestseller John Scalzi offers a ludicrous proposal with a lot of heart in his latest novel. When the moon turns to cheese, the world is left in conflict and confusion. It becomes a global cultural moment where comedians and scientists and everyone in between has to question their beliefs in the face of absurdity.
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