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2025 Books

USA Today: Best Books of 2025

18 December 2025

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

USA Today: Best Books of 2025

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021]

  1. Wild Dark Shore
    Charlotte McConaghy
  2. The Emperor of Gladness
    Ocean Vuong
  3. A Marriage at Sea
    A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    Sophie Elmhirst
  4. Heart the Lover
    Lily King
  5. Sunrise on the Reaping
    Suzanne Collins
  6. These Summer Storms
    Sarah MacLean
  7. The Girls Who Grew Big
    Leila Mottley
  8. My Friends
    Fredrik Backman
  9. Atmosphere
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
  10. Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
    Kylie Lee Baker
  11. A Language of Limbs
    Dylin Hardcastle
  12. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
    V.E. Schwab
  13. Finding My Way
    Malala Yousafzai
  14. Things in Nature Merely Grow
    Yiyun Li
  15. Cursed Daughters
    Oyinkan Braithwaite

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