Black Library Book of the Year

[SteveAntilles]

In the same vein as the model of they year, we have a new poll for book of the year. It's obviously Interceptor City, but there's other options too if you want to be wrong:

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/xk95c67a/vote-for-your-favourite-black-library-book-of-2025/

[wecanhaveallthree]

Ashes can and should win, not only on its own merits but for effectively righting the HH ship and getting the Scouring started properly. 

 

It's Wraight's Terra books taken up to 11, and they're solid contenders for 'best book(s)' themselves. 

[DarkChaplain]

Ashes of the Imperium shouldn't even be a candidate. It doesn't even release for another 3 days as of today.

 

Voting Dropsite Massacre myself, because that managed to remind me of why I loved the pre-Siege Heresy, particularly the early parts of the war.

[Tolmeus]

Yes, my selection is the same. I haven't read ‘Ashes’ yet, I'm still waiting for it to be delivered, so I can only guess from the reactions in the forum that it's a blast (which it obviously is, no surprise there). The only other contender in my eyes is ‘Dropsite Massacre’, for the same reason Chaplain mentioned.

[The Scorpion]

2 hours ago, wecanhaveallthree said:

Ashes can and should win, not only on its own merits but for effectively righting the HH ship and getting the Scouring started properly. 

 

It's Wraight's Terra books taken up to 11, and they're solid contenders for 'best book(s)' themselves. 

My faith in Wraight is so strong I almost voted this without having read it.

[1ncarnadine]

I also voted for Dropsite Massacre. I'm not sure it was strictly the best-written BL entry among the candidates, but it was the one I personally enjoyed the most from what I've been able to read.

Of the 2025 entries that I've actually read, Voidscarred was good but not great, Interceptor City I think I read and voted for last year in LE format, Fulgrim: The Perfect Son was just ok, and Era of Ruin was too uneven as an anthology. Grotsnik was very good and my runner-up choice, so I hope it performs well. I still have a lot of of 2025's offerings in the pile of shame in some format or another so I can't judge them yet, unfortunately. And Ashes whenever that shows up.

I suspect Interceptor City will win this year because it's Dan Abnett and more people have had access to it, even though it was 9th last year. But you never know... last year's results were baffling to me.

[The Scorpion]

Right, Siege of Vraks won, despite our consensus that it was Lyons' weakest DkoK novel.

 

I guess we really don't know what people want.

[Craig]

I only read (or listened to) Remnant Blade and Grotsnik of those released this year. I voted Grotsnik even though I enjoyed both equally in different ways.

[Lathe Biosas]

Strange... my favorite Black Library release wasn't on the list: "The Light of the Emperor and other Stories."

[sitnam]

As I don't like Heresy, I haven't read either Dropsite or Ashes. My vote was actually AoS, Queen of the Rose Throne. I haven't read a ton this year, so novels like Remnant Blade, Starseers Ruin, and Void scarred are still on my to do list. Of what I did read, QotRT is a fun fantasy novel

 

I suspect Starseers Ruin might be my favorite is I can finish it in time

[Casual Heresy]

I suspect Ashes would change it if I had my copy, but based on the 2025 releases I have actually read so far, I voted for Voidscarred. A story I enjoyed and I really like having the Corsairs fleshed out a little more. Makes the prospect of a Corsair release a dangerous temptation for me.

[LemartesTheLost]

I haven't read much Black Library that was released this year, and I'm completely done with M.31 aside from a few potential character books we were discussing in the other thread, so Interceptor City got my vote even though the LE was released last year.

[Marshal Loss]

Dropsite Massacre for me without a doubt. Absolutely brilliant work from French