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Vulture: Emma Alpern: The Best Books of 2025

02 December 2025

Emma Alpern: The Best Books of 2025, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

  1. Shadow Ticket
    Thomas Pynchon
  2. Hunter
    Shuang Xuetao
  3. Murderland
    Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
    Caroline Fraser
  4. I Regret Almost Everything
    A Memoir
    Keith McNally
  5. The Silver Book
    Olivia Laing

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