Year-End Lists

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2025
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Dogs - C. Mallon

Our Culture: Sam Franzini The Best Books of 2025

An Archive of Love Volume II - Romaisa Baddar (curator)

Passerby Best Books of 2025

The Ten Year Affair - Erin Somers

Esquire: Adam Morgan The 35 Best Books of 2025

Gliff - Ali Smith

Boston Globe The Best Books of 2025

1929 - Andrew Ross Sorkin

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2025

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) - Rabih Alameddine

Shelf Awareness 2025 Best Books of the Year

The Wilderness - Angela Flournoy

WBEZ The Best Reads of 2025

Nobody's Girl - Virginia Roberts Giuffre

The i Paper: Anna Bonet The 10 Best Books of 2025

Good Dirt - Charmaine Wilkerson

Christian Science Monitor The Top 25 Books for 2025

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

USA Today Best Books of 2025

The Let Them Theory - Mel Robbins

AP 10 Notable Books of 2025

The Slip - Lucas Schaefer

Town & Country The 20 Best Books of 2025

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

People The 15 Best Books of 2025

Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy

Book Riot Best Books of 2025

Flashlight - Susan Choi

Vanity Fair The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read

Bad Bad Girl - Gish Jen

Los Angeles Times The 15 Best Books of 2025

The Antidote - Karen Russell

Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan 10 Favorite Books of 2025

Overshoot - Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

Verso Books The Year 2025 in Ten Books

A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar

California Review of Books 10 Best Books of 2025

Night Watch - Kevin Young

Atlantic The Best Books of 2025

Pan - Michael Clune

Slate: Laura Miller The 10 Best Books of 2025

Is a River Alive? - Robert Macfarlane

New Yorker The Best Books of 2025

Murderland - Caroline Fraser

Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli The 10 Best Books of 2025

Helm - Sarah Hall

Independent: Martin Chilton Best Books of 2025

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