Year-End Lists

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2025
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Helm - Sarah Hall

Independent: Martin Chilton Best Books of 2025

The Ten Year Affair - Erin Somers

Lit Hub 43 Favorite Books of 2025

Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton

Wall Street Journal The 10 Best Books of 2025

Lonely Crowds - Stephanie Wambugu

Vulture: Jasmine Vojdani The Best Books of 2025

Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon

Vulture: Emma Alpern The Best Books of 2025

Angel Down - Daniel Kraus

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2025

Uncanny Valley Girls - Zefyr Lisowski

Them The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025

Groceries - Nora Claire Miller

New York Public Library Best Books for Adults 2025

A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar

Time The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Flashlight - Susan Choi

Electric Lit Best Novels of 2025

The Hounding - Xenobe Purvis

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025

Motherland - Julia Ioffe

BookPage The Best Nonfiction of 2025

We Do Not Part - Han Kang

BookPage The Best Fiction of 2025

The Dry Season - Melissa Febos

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2025

A Truce That Is Not Peace - Miriam Toews

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025

The Director - Daniel Kehlmann

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025

Ruth - Kate Riley

Washington Post The 10 Best Books of 2025

Flesh - David Szalay

Financial Times: Maria Crawford Best Fiction of 2025

Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy

Economist The Best Books of 2025

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) - Rabih Alameddine

National Book Award Fiction 2025

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad

National Book Award Nonfiction 2025

Flesh - David Szalay

The Booker Prize 2025 Award

We Live Here Now - C.D. Rose

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2025

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