Year-End Lists

Laura Miller: The 10 Best Books of 2025, as published by Slate

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• Moderation
  Elaine Castillo
• Murderland

  Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
  Caroline Fraser
• Pan
  Michael Clune
• Lower than the Angels

  A History of Sex and Christianity
  Diarmaid MacCulloch
• After Midnight

  Thirteen Tales for the Dark Hours
  Daphne du Maurier
• Searches

  Selfhood in the Digital Age
  Vauhini Vara
• Isola
  Allegra Goodman
• A Marriage at Sea

  A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
  Sophie Elmhirst
• We Do Not Part
  Han Kang
• Raising Hare

  A Memoir
  Chloe Dalton