Year-End Lists

Christian Science Monitor: The Top 25 Books for 2025

Fiction

• Amity
  Nathan Harris
• Isola
  Allegra Goodman
• Good Dirt
  Charmaine Wilkerson
• Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
  Jesse Q. Sutanto
• The Emperor of Gladness
  Ocean Vuong
• Maya & Natasha
  Elyse Durham
• The Correspondent
  Virginia Evans
• Allegro
  Ariel Dorfman
• The Dream Hotel
  Laila Lalami
• The Impossible Fortune
  Richard Osman
• The Wayfinder
  Adam Johnson
• Going Home
  Tom Lamont
• A Case of Mice and Murder
  Sally Smith

Nonfiction

• We the People

  A History of the U.S. Constitution
  Jill Lepore
• Buckley

  The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
  Sam Tanenhaus
• The Place of Tides
  James Rebanks
• I Am Nobody's Slave

  How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free
  Lee Hawkins
• The Containment

  Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
  Michelle Adams
• Mark Twain
  Ron Chernow
• Aflame

  Learning from Silence
  Pico Iyer
• Storyteller

  The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
  Leo Damrosch
• The Great Chinese Art Heist

  Imperialism, Organized Crime, and the Hidden Story of China's Stolen Artistic Treasures
  Ralph Pezzullo
• Tonight in Jungleland

  The Making of Born to Run
  Peter Ames Carlin
• Dark Renaissance

  The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
  Stephen Greenblatt
• Hostage
  Eli Sharabi