Year-End Lists

New York Post: The 30 Best Books of 2025

[see also 2024]

• The Antidote
  Karen Russell
• Audition
  Katie Kitamura
• Buckeye
  Patrick Ryan
• Dream State
  Eric Puchner
• Flashlight
  Susan Choi
• Flesh
  David Szalay
• Heart the Lover
  Lily King
• Heartwood
  Amity Gaige
• The Hounding
  Xenobe Purvis
• King of Ashes
  S.A. Cosby
• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
  Kiran Desai
• Sleep
  Honor Jones
• The Slip
  Lucas Schaefer
• Stone Yard Devotional
  Charlotte Wood
• What a Time to Be Alive
  Jade Chang

Nonfiction

• The Aviator and the Showman

  Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon
  Laurie Gwen Shapiro
• The Big One

  How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics
  Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
• Care and Feeding

  A Memoir
  Laurie Woolever
• Claire McCardell

  The Designer Who Set Women Free
  Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
• Doctored

  Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's
  Charles Piller
• A Flower Traveled in My Blood

  The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
  Haley Cohen Gilliland
• The History of Money

  A Story of Humanity
  David McWilliams
• I Regret Almost Everything

  A Memoir
  Keith McNally
• A Marriage at Sea

  A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
  Sophie Elmhirst
• Murderland

  Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
  Caroline Fraser
• The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto

  A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto
  Benjamin Wallace
• Replaceable You

  Adventures in Human Anatomy
  Mary Roach
• Say Everything

  A Memoir
  Ione Skye
• When the Going Was Good
  Graydon Carter
• The Uncool
  Cameron Crowe