Not Quite Dead yet
by Holly Jackson
★ Top 25 book of 2025 · #25 on Best Books of 2025
Holly Jackson's 2025 mystery thriller marks her first novel written for adults. It earned a Goodreads Choice Award in the Readers' Favorite Mystery & Thriller category.
Best for: Mystery thriller fans curious about Jackson's first adult novel
Not Quite Dead yet is #25 on BookWard's Best Books of 2025, out of 30 2025 books that cleared our data bar.
What Not Quite Dead yet is about
On Halloween night in Woodstock, Vermont, 27-year-old Jet Mason is struck from behind and left for dead. She wakes in hospital thirty-six hours later with a severely fractured skull and a stark choice. She can have immediate surgery, which carries a high risk of death, or decline it and die of an aneurysm in a week. Jet turns the operation down and gives herself seven days to find out who attacked her. Holly Jackson makes her adult debut with a thriller that turns a ticking clock into the heart of the story, and weighs mortality against the hunger for justice.
Not Quite Dead yet on the Best Books of 2025
Not Quite Dead yet came out in 2025. Of the 30 books first published in 2025 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #25 on our Best Books of 2025 list.
Why it made the list: 300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 4,860 views a month recently. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
It earns Being read right now.
Nearby on the 2025 list
- The Emperor of Gladness Ocean Vuong, #23
- The Rose Field Philip Pullman, #24
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More years: Best Books of 2024.
The numbers behind it
- Readers: 95 want to read it, 5 are reading it now and 4 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Wikipedia: its article averaged 4,860 views a month recently.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 90 | 45% |
| Reader love | 13 | 20% |
| Being read right now | 90 | 15% |
| Attention | 30 | 20% |
Questions about Not Quite Dead yet
When was Not Quite Dead yet published?
Not Quite Dead yet by Holly Jackson was first published in 2025.
Was Not Quite Dead yet one of the best books of 2025?
Not Quite Dead yet is #25 on BookWard's Best Books of 2025, out of 30 2025 books that cleared our data bar. 300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 4,860 views a month recently.
Why is Not Quite Dead yet on the Best Books of 2025 list?
300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 4,860 views a month recently.
More of the best books of 2025
- The Secret of Secrets Dan Brown, #1
- Katabasis R. F. Kuang, #2
- Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid, #3
- Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros, #4
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Eliezer Yudkowsky, #5
- Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy, #6
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How we know
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