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2025 Books

People: The 15 Best Books of 2025

18 December 2025

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

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

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