Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025

• Amity
  Nathan Harris
• The Antidote
  Karen Russell
• Are You Happy?

  Stories
  Lori Ostlund
• Audition
  Katie Kitamura
• Bring the House Down
  Charlotte Runcie
• Buckeye
  Patrick Ryan
• The Correspondent
  Virginia Evans
• Culpability
  Bruce Holsinger
• The Director
  Daniel Kehlmann
• Dream Count
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Dream Hotel
  Laila Lalami
• Elita
  Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
• Endling
  Maria Reva
• Flashlight
  Susan Choi
• God and Sex
  Jon Raymond
• A Guardian and a Thief
  Megha Majumdar
• Heart, Be at Peace
  Donal Ryan
• Heart the Lover
  Lily King
• Isola
  Allegra Goodman
• The Land in Winter
  Andrew Miller
• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
  Kiran Desai
• Make Your Way Home

  Stories
  Carrie R. Moore
• Mothers and Sons
  Adam Haslett
• The Nimbus
  Robert P. Baird
• Nova Scotia House
  Charlie Porter
• The Original
  Nell Stevens
• Palaver
  Bryan Washington
• Pan
  Michael Clune
• The Pelican Child

  Stories
  Joy Williams
• Perspective(s)
  Laurent Binet
• Playworld
  Adam Ross
• The Satisfaction Café
  Kathy Wang
• Shadow Ticket
  Thomas Pynchon
• Six Weeks by the Sea
  Paula Byrne
• Sleep
  Honor Jones
• Some Bright Nowhere
  Ann Packer
• The South
  Tash Aw
• Stag Dance

  A Quartet
  Torrey Peters
• Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
  Donald Niedekker
• The Sunflower Boys
  Sam Wachman
• Tartufo
  Kira Jane Buxton
• Terrestrial History
  Joe Mungo Reed
• Theft
  Abdulrazak Gurnah
• Theory & Practice
  Michelle de Kretser
• Tom's Crossing
  Mark Z. Danielewski
• UnWorld
  Jayson Greene
• Vera, or Faith
  Gary Shteyngart
• What We Can Know
  Ian McEwan
• Wolf Bells
  Leni Zumas
• Your Steps on the Stairs
  Antonio Muñoz Molina