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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

In 2025, our science reporters followed the first confirmed glimpse of a colossal squid and a rare look at dinosaur blood ...
The publishing world's notable releases this year included a new “Hunger Games” novel and a book by Thomas Pynchon ...
F or me, the standout book of 2025 is John Blair’s Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World ...
Real life can sometimes bring us some incredible plot twists that actually no fantasy writer could imagine. Someone could ...