Year-End Lists

Justine Jordan: The Best Fiction of 2025, as published by The Guardian

• Shadow Ticket
  Thomas Pynchon
• The Eleventh Hour

  A Quintet of Stories
  Salman Rushdie
• What We Can Know
  Ian McEwan
• Dream Count
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
  Kiran Desai
• Helm
  Sarah Hall
• Flesh
  David Szalay
• The Book of Records
  Madeleine Thien
• Dream State
  Eric Puchner
• Flashlight
  Susan Choi
• Saraswati
  Gurnaik Johal
• The South
  Tash Aw
• The Tiger's Share
  Keshava Guha
• Audition
  Katie Kitamura
• Gunk
  Saba Sams
• Seascraper
  Benjamin Wood
• The Pretender
  Jo Harkin
• Slags
  Emma Jane Unsworth
• Havoc
  Rebecca Wait
• Endling
  Maria Reva
• Eden's Shore
  Oisín Fagan
• The Names
  Florence Knapp
• Fundamentally
  Nussaibah Younis
• The Benefactors
  Wendy Erskine
• Nova Scotia House
  Charlie Porter
• Open, Heaven
  Seán Hewitt
• We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
  Colwill Brown
• To Rest Our Minds and Bodies
  Harriet Armstrong
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte
• Every One Still Here
  Liadan Ní Chuinn