Pile By the Bed’s Top 10 books of 2025:
Salvage by Jennifer Mills
Arborescence by Rhett Davis
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Eden by Mark Brandi
The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
Slow Gods by Claire North
Picks and Shovels by Corey Doctorow

Pile By the Bed’s Top Fiven Fantasy books for 2025 – The Incandescent by Emily Tesh, King Sorrow by Joe Hill, The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes, and Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky and

Pile by the Bed’s Top 55 Crime novels for 2025 and 5 honourable mentions. The top five are: Mark Brandi’s Eden, the Hollow Girl by Lyn Yeowart, The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer, Unbury the Dead by Fiona Hardy and The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson.

Pile By the Bed reveals the Top 5 Science Fiction books of 2025: Slow Gods by Claire North, Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds, Salvage by Jennifer Mills and Esperance by Adam Oyebanji.

Pile byt the Bed’s top 10 books for 2024 is led by the exceptional and multi award winning reimagining of Huckleberry Finn – James by Percival Everett.

2024 was another great year for crime fiction. The Pile’s top 5 and 5 honourable mentions includes alternate histories, epic tales, procedurals, fantasy, history and hot button issues.

Pile by the Bed’s Top 5 Science Fiction Books for 2024 includes space opera, robots, found families and epic poetry. 5 Honourable mentions round out a diverse top 10 for the year.

2024 has been a great year for new fantasy. Here is the Pile’s top 5 with 5 honourable mentions. All ten are winners for fanatsy lovers.

Pile by the Bed’s Top 10 books of 2023 including Cuddy, I Have Some Questions For You, Yellowface, Orbital, Birnam Wood, Bad Cree, Small Mercies, Return to Valetto, Mater 2-10 and Titanium Noir

Pile By the Bed’s top five crime novels for 2023 including I Have Some Questions for You, Small Mercies, Age of Vice, Lay Your Body Down and Titanium Noir.

Pile By the Bed’s Top five fantasy books for 2023 including Bad Cree, The Saint of Bright Doors, Gods of the Wyrdwood, The City of Last Chances and The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

Pile by the Bed’s Top five science fiction books of 2023 – In The Lives of Puppets, Titanium Noir, Translation State, The Blighted Stars and Ymir, plus five honourable mentions.

Pile By the Bed’s Top 5 reads for 2022 include The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers, Hovering by Rhett David, Devil House by John Darnielle, The Colony by Audry Magee and Maror by Lavie Tidhar

Pile by the Bed’s Top 5 crime novels for 2022 include Devil House, Black River, Better the Blood, Notes on an Execution and The Darkest Sin, with five additional honourable mentions.

Pile by the Bed’s Top 5 Science Fiction books for 2022 includes The Mountain in the Sea, Poster Girl, Under Fortunate Stars, Neom and The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. Plus 5 Honourable Mentions

Pile by the Bed’s Top 5 fantasy books for 2022 are Babel, The Stardust Thief, Book of Night, Siren Queen and Jade Legacy – with five honourable mentions.

It was a tough choice but here are Pile by the Bed’s top 5 books of 2021 and five honourable mentions.

Pile by the Bed’s Top 5 crime novels for 2021 and 5 honourable mentions.

Pile by the Bed’s top five science fiction novels for 2021 with five honourable mentions.

Pile by the Bed’s top 5 (actually 6) fantasy novels of 2021 and four honourable mentions