Year-End Lists

Shelf Awareness: 2025 Best Books of the Year

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

Fiction

• Audition
  Katie Kitamura
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
  Stephen Graham Jones
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
  V.E. Schwab
• The Hounding
  Xenobe Purvis
• The Land in Winter
  Andrew Miller
• Mutual Interest
  Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
• An Oral History of Atlantis
  Ed Park
• Oxford Soju Club
  Jinwoo Park
• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
  Rabih Alameddine
• When the Cranes Fly South
  Lisa Ridzén

Nonfiction

• Actress of a Certain Age

  My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
  Jeff Hiller
• Clam Down

  A Metamorphosis
  Anelise Chen
• Lullaby for the Grieving

  Poems
  Ashley M. Jones
• Mother Mary Comes to Me
  Arundhati Roy
• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
  Omar El Akkad
• The Quiet Ear

  An Investigation of Missing Sound
  Raymond Antrobus
• Replaceable You

  Adventures in Human Anatomy
  Mary Roach
• Scream with Me

  Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)
  Eleanor Johnson
• There Is No Place for Us

  Working and Homeless in America
  Brian Goldstone
• Things Become Other Things

  A Walking Memoir
  Craig Mod