The Court of the Dead
by Rick Riordan
★ Top 10 book of 2025 · #8 on Best Books of 2025
Nico di Angelo and Will Solace head to Camp Jupiter to join Hazel Levesque and sort out a mess the two boys accidentally caused. It is a mythology-based adventure co-written by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro, following The Sun and the Star.
Best for: Percy Jackson fans who want more Greco-Roman mythology adventure for middle grade readers
The Court of the Dead is #8 on BookWard's Best Books of 2025, out of 30 2025 books that cleared our data bar.
What The Court of the Dead is about
Three months after the demigods' descent into Tartarus, Camp Jupiter has taken in an unusual group of refugees: monsters who have asked for sanctuary. Among them are the Minotaur Asterion, a blemmyae, a karpos, an empousa, a gryphon and an eidolon. The Roman legion is used to hunting and being hunted by mythics, and Nico and Will have to deal with a great deal of backlash from the legion as they try to help the mythics settle in.
Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, and Will Solace, son of Apollo, find themselves at the center of the tension, alongside Hazel Levesque. Then the newcomers start disappearing, each one after a night of troubling dreams about standing trial. Tracking down who is behind it leads the group toward a tribunal whose leaders have their own designs on Hades's realm. Co-written by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro, this middle grade fantasy follows The Sun and the Star and explores belonging, prejudice toward outsiders, family ties and the pull of revenge. Readers who enjoy Greek and Roman myth with a modern, inclusive spirit will feel at home.
The Court of the Dead on the Best Books of 2025
The Court of the Dead came out in 2025. Of the 30 books first published in 2025 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #8 on our Best Books of 2025 list.
Why it made the list: 300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 4,867 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.
Nearby on the 2025 list
- Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy, #6
- Abundance Ezra Klein, #7
- Regretting You Colleen Hoover, #9
- Angel Down Daniel Kraus, #10
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 78 want to read it, 3 are reading it now and 5 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Wikipedia: its article averaged 4,867 views a month recently.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 90 | 45% |
| Reader love | 87 | 20% |
| Being read right now | 87 | 15% |
| Attention | 33 | 20% |
Questions about The Court of the Dead
When was The Court of the Dead published?
The Court of the Dead by Rick Riordan was first published in 2025.
Was The Court of the Dead one of the best books of 2025?
The Court of the Dead is #8 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 4,867 views a month recently.
Why is The Court of the Dead on the Best Books of 2025 list?
300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 4,867 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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