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The 21 Best Science-Fiction Books to Read in 2025, From Genre Classics to New Bestsellers

We rounded up the best of the genre, from classics by George Orwell and Octavia E. Butler to recent bestsellers.

Marie Claire

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US

The 88-year-old’s jaunty whodunnit, set during the prohibition era, features clowns, Nazis and a missing cheese heiress

The Guardian - UK

Starmer allies hired investigators to look into author of McSweeney book

KEIR Starmer's allies hired private investigators to explore the background of an author whose book led to the resignation of the Prime Minister's…

The National (Scotland)

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Yusuf Islam, the folk singer also known as Cat Stevens, postpones North American tour over visa issues

The folk singer had been due to tour the United States to promote his new memoir ‘Cat on the Road to Findout’

The Independent UK

20 Years Later, A Consequential Piece Of Star Wars Canon Is Getting A Massive Upgrade

The wrath of Anakin! 20 years later, 'Revenge of the Sith' is getting an upgrade. But not the way you might expect.

Inverse

Cat Stevens postpones North American tour and cites visa issues

Cat Stevens, who also goes by Yusuf, announced Monday that he has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due to unspecified visa issues

The Independent UK

Alan Wright obituary

Other lives: Teacher and school inspector with a passion for literature

The Guardian - UK

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Winning author reveals perils of robodebt rabbit warren

An author has revealed how his three years working on a prize-winning robodebt expose left him feeling at times unwell and "in this kind of rabbit warren".

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The fanfiction written on a notes app that’s become a bestseller – with a seven-figure film deal

SenLinYu’s debut started life as Harry Potter fanfiction. The Alchemised author shares why they were drawn to a war-torn love story, how a conservative upbringing shaped their writing, and the snobbery around fanfiction

The Guardian - UK

‘There’s an enormous amount of sado-masochism in this book’: Emerald Fennell defends her Wuthering Heights adaptation

At the Brontë Women’s Writing festival, the Saltburn director explained her decision to cast Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in her sex-charged retelling of Emily Brontë’s novel

The Guardian - UK

Tony Harrison’s poem V to be performed in the Leeds cemetery that inspired it

The site-specific performance of the once controversial poem was planned for its 40th anniversary in October, but will now double as a tribute to the writer who died last week

The Guardian - UK

Tony Robinson: ‘I might worry a bit about being short, but I landed a part in the cult comedy series of the century’

INTERVIEW: Ahead of appearing at Henley Literary Festival, the ‘Blackadder’ and ‘Time Team’ star opens up to Kathryn Bromwich about how his novel ‘The House of Wolf’ almost disappeared for ever, and his wonderful days working with Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis

The Independent UK

Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2025: Michelle de Kretser wins $80,000 for Theory & Practice

The author used her acceptance speech to call out the Australian government’s response to the war in Gaza, in a ceremony marked by political commentary

The Guardian - AU

The 10 Best Books by Freida McFadden, From 'The Housemaid' to 'The Tenant'

With her first book-to-movie adaptation, 'The Housemaid' coming soon, here's what you should be reading.

Marie Claire

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Half Light by Mahesh Rao review – a tale of forbidden love in India

A love affair between two men in Darjeeling comes to a violent end in this unfocused tale of heartbreak, secrecy – and the separate lives they return to in Mumbai

The Guardian - UK

Amity by Nathan Harris review – perceptive portrait of slavery’s aftermath

This follow-up to the Booker-listed The Sweetness of Water charts the perilous journeys of a brother and sister in the Reconstruction era, from the deep south to Mexico

The Guardian - UK

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker review – communication, broken down

The Harvard psychologist on unwritten rules, social contracts, shared logic – and what happens when they fall apart

The Independent UK

Judy Murray: ‘I’ve seen a lot of toxic behaviour when people believe their own hype’

INTERVIEW: The veteran tennis coach and mum to champions Andy and Jamie speaks to Katie Rosseinsky about her latest foray into novel writing and the power of sporting role models

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Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Marie Claire

How Princess Kate and Prince William Are Ensuring George, Charlotte, and Louis Feel "Loved Equally," as Royals Are Described as "Mom and Dad First"

They're "making sure that none of their children suffer that fate," per a royal expert.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the 2025 Booker prize: bringing posh bingo to the BookTok generation

Editorial: With this year’s shortlist announced live to the public, Britain’s most prestigious literary award is finding ways to engage new audiences

The National (Scotland)

Dundee's rise and fall as world-leading textile manufacturer explored in new book

THE remarkable history of the rise of Dundee as a global industrial powerhouse and its demise has been “badly treated,” historians have argued…

The Guardian - UK

Mary Portas looks back: ‘After Dad died, his wife made us homeless. I never got to be a teenager, instead I worked’

The queen of shops on her tragic teenage years, her glittering rise through retail and her spiritual awakening

The National (Scotland)

The life of famed US collector who helped fire Gaelic revival

WHAT made a young American woman give up her privileged life in the States last century to devote herself to gathering and preserving Gaelic songs…

The Guardian - AU

I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right. I found that antinatalism is seriously taboo

Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should

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