Year-End Lists

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Murderland - Caroline Fraser

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

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2025

Woodworking - Emily St. James

Them The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

New York Public Library Best Books for Adults 2025

Cursed Daughters - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Time The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Dominion - Addie E. Citchens

Electric Lit Best Novels of 2025

A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025

The Perfect Tuba - Sam Quinones

BookPage The Best Nonfiction of 2025

Helm - Sarah Hall

BookPage The Best Fiction of 2025

The Dry Season - Melissa Febos

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2025

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

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025

Endling - Maria Reva

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

Washington Post The 10 Best Books of 2025

Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon

Financial Times: Maria Crawford Best Fiction of 2025

Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton

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

Audition - Katie Kitamura

Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of 2025

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