Year-End Lists

The Observer: The Observer's Books of the Year 2025, with the poetry section filed separately here

Fiction

• Flesh
  David Szalay
• Will There Ever Be Another You
  Patricia Lockwood
• The Benefactors
  Wendy Erskine
• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
  Kiran Desai
• Perfection
  Vincenzo Latronico
• Endling
  Maria Reva
• Fun and Games
  John Patrick McHugh
• Dream Count
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• On the Calculation of Volume

  Book I
  Solvej Balle
• Helm
  Sarah Hall
• The Director
  Daniel Kehlmann
• Every One Still Here
  Liadan Ní Chuinn

Nonfiction

• John & Paul

  A Love Story in Songs
  Ian Leslie
• Attention

  Writing on Life, Art, and the World
  Anne Enright
• Children of Radium

  A Buried Inheritance
  Joe Dunthorne
• How to End a Story

  Collected Diaries
  Helen Garner
• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
  Omar El Akkad
• Death of an Ordinary Man
  Sarah Perry
• A Year with Gilbert White

  The First Great Nature Writer
  Jenny Uglow
• This Is for Everyone
  Tim Berners-Lee
• The Power and the Glory

  A New History of the World Cup
  Jonathan Wilson
• All Consuming

  Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
  Ruby Tandoh
• The Age of Diagnosis

  How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
  Suzanne O'Sullivan
• We Were There

  How Black Culture, Resistance and Community Shaped Modern Britain
  Lanre Bakare
• Book of Lives

  A Memoir of Sorts
  Margaret Atwood

Graphic Novels

• Cry When the Baby Cries
  Becky Barnicoat
• Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy

  City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
  Paul Karasik, Lorenzo Mattotti and David Mazzucchelli (illustrators)