Year-End Lists

Constance Grady: The Best Books of 2025, as published by Vox

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

• Mona Acts Out
  Mischa Berlinski
• Metallic Realms
  Lincoln Michel
• Woodworking
  Emily St. James
• Went to London, Took the Dog

  A Diary
  Nina Stibbe
• Lolly Willowes
  Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Dream Count
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• A Marriage at Sea

  A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
  Sophie Elmhirst
• Flashlight
  Susan Choi
• Sky Daddy
  Kate Folk
• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
  Rabih Alameddine
• Disinheritance

  The Rediscovered Stories
  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• Heart the Lover
  Lily King
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  Anita Loos
• What We Can Know
  Ian McEwan
• Do Admit

  The Mitford Sisters and Me
  Mimi Pond
• The Forbidden Experiment

  The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron
  Roger Shattuck
• Vera, or Faith
  Gary Shteyngart
• Minor Black Figures
  Brandon Taylor
• Searches

  Selfhood in the Digital Age
  Vauhini Vara