Year-End Lists

Christopher Borrelli: The 10 Best Books of 2025, as published by The Chicago Tribune, in no order

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

• Clam Down

  A Metamorphosis
  Anelise Chen
• Red Scare

  Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
  Clay Risen
• The Gossip Columnist's Daughter
  Peter Orner
• A Guardian and a Thief
  Megha Majumdar
• Sick and Dirty

  Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
  Michael Koresky
• Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions
  John Langan
• Do Admit

  The Mitford Sisters and Me
  Mimi Pond
• A Marriage at Sea

  A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
  Sophie Elmhirst
• King of Ashes
  S.A. Cosby
• Murderland

  Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
  Caroline Fraser