Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025

Fiction

• Ruth
  Kate Riley
• The Slip
  Lucas Schaefer
• Stone Yard Devotional
  Charlotte Wood
• The Wayfinder
  Adam Johnson
• The Wilderness
  Angela Flournoy

Nonfiction

• The Fate of the Day

  The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
  Rick Atkinson
• 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
• Gertrude Stein

  An Afterlife
  Francesca Wade
• Melting Point

  Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
  Rachel Cockerell
• Motherland

  A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  Julia Ioffe