Year-End Lists

USA Today: Best Books of 2025

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021]

1. Wild Dark Shore
   Charlotte McConaghy
2. The Emperor of Gladness
   Ocean Vuong
3. A Marriage at Sea

   A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
   Sophie Elmhirst
4. Heart the Lover
   Lily King
5. Sunrise on the Reaping
   Suzanne Collins
6. These Summer Storms
   Sarah MacLean
7. The Girls Who Grew Big
   Leila Mottley
8. My Friends
   Fredrik Backman
9. Atmosphere
   Taylor Jenkins Reid
10. Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
    Kylie Lee Baker
11. A Language of Limbs
    Dylin Hardcastle
12. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
    V.E. Schwab
13. Finding My Way
    Malala Yousafzai
14. Things in Nature Merely Grow
    Yiyun Li
15. Cursed Daughters
    Oyinkan Braithwaite