Books - Year-End Lists

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There Is No Place for Us - Brian Goldstone

MJ Franklin Favorite Books of 2025

Dogs - C. Mallon

Sam Franzini: Our Culture The Best Books of 2025

An Archive of Love Volume II - Romaisa Baddar (curator)

Passerby Best Books of 2025

Cursed Daughters - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Adam Morgan: Esquire The 35 Best Books of 2025

Lonely Crowds - Stephanie Wambugu

Boston Globe The Best Books of 2025

Dead and Alive - Zadie Smith

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2025

Mutual Interest - Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Shelf Awareness 2025 Best Books of the Year

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

Nora Biette-Timmons: Jezebel The Best New Novels of 2025

The Wilderness - Angela Flournoy

WBEZ The Best Reads of 2025

Nobody's Girl - Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Anna Bonet: The i Paper The 10 Best Books of 2025

Good Dirt - Charmaine Wilkerson

Christian Science Monitor The Top 25 Books for 2025

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

USA Today Best Books of 2025

Flesh - David Szalay

AP 10 Notable Books of 2025

A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar

Town & Country The 20 Best Books of 2025

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

People The 15 Best Books of 2025

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

Book Riot Best Books of 2025

Mona Acts Out - Mischa Berlinski

Constance Grady: Vox The Best Books of 2025

Flashlight - Susan Choi

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

Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy

Harper’s Bazaar The 10 Best Books of 2025

Heart the Lover - Lily King

Lucy Feldman: Time The 10 Best Books of 2025

Sunstruck - William Rayfet Hunter

Dazed The Best Books of 2025

The Director - Daniel Kehlmann

Los Angeles Times The 15 Best Books of 2025

The Antidote - Karen Russell

Maureen Corrigan: NPR 10 Favorite Books of 2025

Overshoot - Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

Verso Books The Year 2025 in Ten Books