Year-End Lists

Oprah Daily: The Books That Got Us Through 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021]

Books That Illuminated a Path Forward

• Love

  The Heroic Stories of Marriage Equality
  Frankie Frankeny with John Casey
• Finding My Way
  Malala Yousafzai
• This Happened to Me

  A Reckoning
  Kate Price
• Toni at Random

  The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
  Dana A. Williams
• Not My Type

  One Woman vs. a President
  E. Jean Carroll
• The New Book

  Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things
  Nikki Giovanni

Books That Swept Us Away

• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
  Kiran Desai
• The Listeners
  Maggie Stiefvater
• Too Soon
  Betty Shamieh
• A Gorgeous Excitement
  Cynthia Weiner
• The Compound
  Aisling Rawle
• Flashlight
  Susan Choi

Books That Warmed Our Hearts

• Heart the Lover
  Lily King
• Joyride

  A Memoir
  Susan Orlean
• Hot Air
  Marcy Dermansky
• Mona Acts Out
  Mischa Berlinski
• Sky Daddy
  Kate Folk
• Sweet Heat
  Bolu Babalola
• Vera, or Faith
  Gary Shteyngart

Books That Held Us Through the Storm

• Awake

  A Memoir
  Jen Hatmaker
• Memorial Days

  A Memoir
  Geraldine Brooks
• Sleep
  Honor Jones
• Bug Hollow
  Michelle Huneven
• How to Lose Your Mother

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Molly Jong-Fast
• Firstborn
  Lauren Christensen

Books That Dazzled Us with Their Beauty

• The Echoes
  Evie Wyld
• The White Hot
  Quiara Alegría Hudes
• The Sunflower Boys
  Sam Wachman
• Mothers and Sons
  Adam Haslett
• Startlement

  New and Selected Poems
  Ada Limón