Unleash Your Mind: The 50 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Dominating 2025 That Will Blow Your Limits and Ignite Your Imagination!

This bleak vision of our future imagines a world in which the glaciers have completely melted, and a young girl named Nonie and her family are part of a dwindling number of New York City inhabitants. They’ve found refuge on the roof the Natural History Museum, and grow crops in Central Park. When a superstorm threatens their home, the family disembarks to safety, and carry with them a book detailing the history they’ve had to leave behind.

In this sci-fi mystery, a bio-prosthetic surgeon and her AI companion are drawn into a burgeoning war when a fellow member of her social class, a Sainted, is murdered, and the AI that runs the city erases any data surrounding the crime.

Check it out if you’re looking for a book about class consciousness, technology, and how the two intersect.

Described as Ocean’s 8 meets Blade Runner, this sci-fi debut is a space heist worth reading. When Edie gets out of prison after nearly a decade, Angel, the same person who burned them, is back, promising one last job. And it’s against the same target that got them in prison: a trillionaire tech god. Will they be able to pull off the job? Or will Angel betray them one more time? You’ll have to read to find out.

Okorafor’s novel is receiving major critical acclaim, and for good reason. The novel follows a disabled and dejected writer who decides to pen an ambitious new work about an android and AI war called Rusted Robots. Her ensuing launch to stardom and everything that comes with it makes it a magnificent piece of metafiction. Pick this one up if you want to join the praise of a new literary star.

This one’s a weird one. Vi, a college dropout, is searching for a sense of belonging. And on a night out with a coworker she finds it … in a small living blob creature. Vi then gets a bright idea: She’ll turn that blob into her ideal partner. But the success of the experiment only makes Vi’s life spiral out of control, and she eventually has to confront everything she’s been running away from.

Two strangers meet after a missed flight and realize a haunting connection: they’ve both lost a loved one who encountered a mysterious woman before their deaths. One of the travelers, Jake, sets out on a journey to find out who the woman is and why her presence is so powerful.

The penultimate entry in Rollins’s Moonfall series follows his protagonist, Nyx, and her allies on a quest to retrieve an ancient weapon buried thousands of years ago. In a desert turned to glass, they’ll also have to survive against a long buried army, who are destined to wake at the threat of uncovering the planet’s secrets. Along the way, Nyx will also have to wonder if she can trust herself—or those around her.

For Star Wars fans looking for a new trilogy to dive into, The Mask of Fear follows Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Saw Gerrara in the days before the Rebellion. Fans of Andor will enjoy this deep dive into the time when the Empire ruled, and how three pillars of the Rebel Alliance got their start.

This highly anticipated fifth novel in Samantha Shannon’s series The Bone Season follows her long-running protagonist, Paige Mahoney, who now finds herself with her memory wiped and a revolution to save. It’s a tall order to get her memories back and save Europe at the same time.

What if your dreams convicted you of a crime? In this gripping new sci-fi novel, The Dream Hotel follows a woman who is detained because she’s suspected she may soon commit a crime against her own husband. As she spends her days locked away in a facility, her imprisonment is extended with no end in sight. Then, when a new resident arrives, the facility and its restrictions begin to unravel.

An aging combat drone veteran is pulled into a murder he knows nothing about, in this debut novel set in a cyberpunk version of L.A. His interest is further piqued when it turns out his ex-boyfriend is the prime suspect. Throughout his investigation, Orr Vue, the protagonist, encounters everything from a cult to a megarich corporate family in his quest to solve the strange case.

Hugo-Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar pens this new book about a pair of sisters in a small Faerie town whose relationship is tested when one rejects a suitor and pursues another. It ends up not only threatening their bond, but potentially their lives as well.

Three siblings—one a robot, two human—must grapple with their childhood conflicts and present day discord when a murder investigation brings them all back together in this debut set in a unified Korea. Likened to Klara and the Sun, this one’s a tearjerker.

The fourth entry in Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series follows Carl and his companions as they face the fifth floor of a multi-level dungeon, which is also the set of the galaxy’s most watched game show. The team will have to get inventive if they want to get through a floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes, a haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps and so much more. Whether you’re a newcomer to the series or a longtime fan, you’ll enjoy this fantastical new book.

A sci-fi theme that never gets old, Philip Fracassi’s newest read establishes three rules for time travel. You can only travel to a moment in your lifetime, you have only ninety seconds, and you can only observe. But things go awry when the creator of the technology, Beth, finds herself mired in chaos when she notices even just observing appears to alter the present.

This chilling dive into the darkest parts of the Internet has startling likeness to our present times. Sammy Dominguez is a young man searching for distraction after a car accident kills his girlfriend. But when a dark web link takes him to a website that shows him the most depraved and impossible videos and images online—and even seems to predict what he wants to watch next—it convinces Sammy to investigate the origins of the site, even as it threatens to destroy who he is forever.

This Inception-esque novel follows a woman named Maggie Webb, who takes care of her elderly husband as his mind slips away. One day, a strange man reveals a shocking truth: Her husband’s memory loss is due to someone stealing his memories to hide a long kept secret. To bring back her husband, Maggie agrees to dive into his mind as she seeks to unravel what the strange man at her door really wants, and how her husband’s memories could have ramifications for the whole world.

What if the moon was really cheese? This new sci-fi book sets to find out the answer to that question. Chaos is all around as everyone from politicians, billionaires, and the regular people of the world have to reconsider their places in the world, and what it means when the impossible happens.

When We Were Real proves even in an artificial world, it’s the very real relationships we have with each other that really matter. When JP’s cancer makes an aggressive return, he and his best friend Dulin decide to go on one last adventure—just as it’s discovered our reality is merely a digital simulacrum. They jump on a coach bus to travel North America and along the way, get to know the other passengers, encounter increasingly strange places, and may even learn who’s behind the entire simulation.

Imagine if the U.S. President could extend his life by downloading his consciousness into a series of new bodies. And imagine if Europe was controlled by AI Prime Ministers. That’s the reality of Nayler’s Where the Axe is Buried, and the political landscape is starting to crumble. The book explores the lives of scientists and politicians as they seek to either save or destroy the futuristic world they live in.