The most popular science & technology books of 2025

These books explore discovery and invention and how they change us. Laboratories, space stations and start-ups provide the settings, and the questions are about progress, responsibility and what we might become. Novels and true stories of breakthroughs both belong here. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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Emergence
Cover of Emergence

Emergence

JK Franks

Published 2025

708 pages

Building 18
Cover of Building 18

Building 18

Michael Urban

Published 2025

440 pages

Curio Citizen
Cover of Curio Citizen

Curio Citizen

Katherine Forrister

Published 2025

410 pages

Cone
Cover of Cone

Cone

Michael Cole

Published 2025

252 pages