Year-End Lists

Town & Country: The 20 Best Books of 2025, although I only count 19

[see also 2023 • 2010s]

• Flashlight
  Susan Choi
• Theft
  Abdulrazak Gurnah
• The Antidote
  Karen Russell
• Meet Me at the Crossroads
  Megan Giddings
• The Slip
  Lucas Schaefer
• A Guardian and a Thief
  Megha Majumdar
• Playworld
  Adam Ross
• The Devils
  Joe Abercrombie
• King of Kings

  The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
  Scott Anderson
• The Gods of New York

  Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990
  Jonathan Mahler
• Isola
  Allegra Goodman
• A Marriage at Sea

  A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
  Sophie Elmhirst
• Changeover

  A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis
  Giri Nathan
• Mother Mary Comes to Me
  Arundhati Roy
• The Spinach King

  The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
  John Seabrook
• The Wilderness
  Angela Flournoy
• The Wayfinder
  Adam Johnson
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
  V.E. Schwab
• Memorial Days

  A Memoir
  Geraldine Brooks