Year-End Lists

Adam Morgan: The 35 Best Books of 2025, as published by Esquire

• The Wayfinder
  Adam Johnson
• Lightbreakers
  Aja Gabel
• Angel Down
  Daniel Kraus
• Cursed Daughters
  Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Startlement

  New and Selected Poems
  Ada Limón
• Jane Austen's Bookshelf

  A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
  Rebecca Romney
• I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
  Irene Solà
• Honeymoon Stage
  Margaux Eliot
• Fonseca
  Jessica Francis Kane
• A Guardian and a Thief
  Megha Majumdar
• Extinction Capital of the World

  Stories
  Mariah Rigg
• Waterline
  Aram Mrjoian
• Kaplan's Plot
  Jason Diamond
• The Ten Year Affair
  Erin Somers
• Bog Queen
  Anna North
• Rosarita
  Anita Desai
• Exit Zero

  Stories
  Marie-Helene Bertino
• The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century
  Stephen Harrigan
• Mỹ Documents
  Kevin Nguyen
• The Imagined Life
  Andrew Porter
• We Lived on the Horizon
  Erika Swyler
• The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
  Eve L. Ewing
• Death Takes Me
  Cristina Rivera Garza
• The Dream Hotel
  Laila Lalami
• The River Has Roots
  Amal El-Mohtar
• The Antidote
  Karen Russell
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
  Stephen Graham Jones
• Dissolution
  Nicholas Binge
• Where the Axe Is Buried
  Ray Nayler
• Searches

  Selfhood in the Digital Age
  Vauhini Vara
• Terrestrial History
  Joe Mungo Reed
• Audition
  Katie Kitamura
• Metallic Realms
  Lincoln Michel
• The Book of Records
  Madeleine Thien
• Mark Twain
  Ron Chernow