Year-End Lists

People: The 15 Best Books of 2025

[see also 2022]

1. Broken Country
   Clare Leslie Hall
2. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
   Kiran Desai
3. Katabasis
   R.F. Kuang
4. A Marriage at Sea

   A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
   Sophie Elmhirst
5. Atmosphere
   Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. Buckeye
   Patrick Ryan
7. A Guardian and a Thief
   Megha Majumdar
8. The Dream Hotel
   Laila Lalami
9. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
   V.E. Schwab
10. Paper Girl

    A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
    Beth Macy
11. King of Ashes
    S.A. Cosby
12. The Antidote
    Karen Russell
13. Good Dirt
    Charmaine Wilkerson
14. The Emperor of Gladness
    Ocean Vuong
15. Playworld
    Adam Ross