Thursday, December 25, 2025

The top 25 books for 2025: "Christian Science Monitor"

One title on the Christian Science Monitor's list of the top twenty-five books for 2025:
The Dream Hotel, by Laila Lalami

In Laila Lalami’s unnerving speculative novel, archivist Sara Hussein is detained for having a problematic “risk score” due to violent dreams. Baffled, desperate, and increasingly enraged, Sara builds alliances, battles hopelessness, and strains to demonstrate her innocence in the face of institutional suspicion and weaponized data. Privacy never sounded so good.
Read about the other entries on the list.

The Dream Hotel is among Fred Lunzer's ten realist novels that integrate futuristic topics.

--Marshal Zeringue