Year-End Lists

WBEZ: The Best Reads of 2025

Fiction

• Near Flesh

  Stories
  Katherine Dunn
• The Wilderness
  Angela Flournoy
• Wanting
  Claire Jia
• Katabasis
  R.F. Kuang
• What We Can Know
  Ian McEwan
• Loved One
  Aisha Muharrar
• Death of the Author
  Nnedi Okorafor
• Fundamentally
  Nussaibah Younis

Non-fiction

• This American Woman

  A One-In-A-Billion Memoir
  Zarna Garg
• Everything Is Tuberculosis

  The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
  John Green
• Night People

  How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City
  Mark Ronson
• A Beautiful Shame

  One Team's Fight for Survival in a New Era of College Sports
  Ryan Swanson

Graphic

• Preparing to Bite
  Keiler Roberts