Year-End Lists

Traci Thomas: Top Books of 2025, as aired on WBUR’s Here & Now

[see also 2024 • 2022]

Fiction

• Hunchback
  Saou Ichikawa
• Dominion
  Addie E. Citchens
• Middle Spoon
  Alejandro Varela
• The Grand Paloma Resort
  Cleyvis Natera
• Sunrise on the Reaping
  Suzanne Collins
• This Thing of Ours
  Frederick Joseph
• Stag Dance

  A Quartet
  Torrey Peters

Nonfiction

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
  Omar El Akkad
• The Gods of New York

  Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
  Jonathan Mahler
• Things in Nature Merely Grow
  Yiyun Li
• Black in Blues

  How a Color Tells the Story of My People
  Imani Perry
• Original Sins

  The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
  Eve L. Ewing
• There Is No Place for Us

  Working and Homeless in America
  Brian Goldstone
• 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
• Sad Tiger
  Neige Sinno
• The Hollow Half

  A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
  Sarah Aziza

Poems and essays

• The People's Project

  Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward
  Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith (curators)
• Scorched Earth
  Tiana Clark

Cookbooks

• Good Things

  Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
  Samin Nosrat