2025: What is/are your favorite read(s) of 2025?

[Steve]

What books are at or near the top of your techno-thriller favorite read(s) for 2025?

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[Steve]

Aggressor by FX Holden (2023)

There aren’t many explicit series in the techno-thriller genre, but I’d say the Aggressor series is the best series in the genre and as a whole these 5 books together also eclipse the joy of reading from any singular book in the genre. It gives a hypothetical scenario for China attempting to take Taiwan by force, and the ensuing world war. Of course, that whole thing could go many ways and is unpredictable in a multitude of ways, but this is a very intriguing read, much like Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising painted a hypothetical picture of war between the Soviet Union and the US in the 1980s.