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Independent: Martin Chilton: Best Books of 2025

04 December 2025

Martin Chilton: Best Books of 2025, as published by The Independent

  1. Helm
    Sarah Hall
  2. No Obvious Distress
    Amanda Quaid
  3. The Names
    Florence Knapp
  4. Attention
    Writing on Life, Art, and the World
    Anne Enright
  5. Flesh
    David Szalay
  6. Jesus Christ Kinski
    Benjamin Myers
  7. Gertrude Stein
    An Afterlife
    Francesca Wade
  8. Audition
    Katie Kitamura
  9. Electric Spark
    The Enigma of Dame Muriel
    Frances Wilson
  10. Bring the House Down
    Charlotte Runcie
  11. A Mind of My Own
    Kathy Burke
  12. Good Anger
    How Rethinking Rage Can Change Our Lives
    Sam Parker
  13. Mother Mary Comes to Me
    Arundhati Roy
  14. Exterminate/Regenerate
    The Story of Doctor Who
    John Higgs
  15. Wild Cities
    Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
    Chris Fitch

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