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The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read Vanity Fair

The 15 Best Books of 2025 Los Angeles Times

10 Favorite Books of 2025 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

The Year 2025 in Ten Books Verso Books

10 Best Books of 2025 California Review of Books

The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Slate: Laura Miller

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

Best Books of 2025 Independent: Martin Chilton

43 Favorite Books of 2025 Lit Hub

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

The Best Books of 2025 Vulture: Jasmine Vojdani

The Best Books of 2025 Vulture: Emma Alpern

The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times

The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 Them

Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time

Best Novels of 2025 Electric Lit

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times

The Best Nonfiction of 2025 BookPage

The Best Fiction of 2025 BookPage

Best Nonfiction of 2025 Electric Lit

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post

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