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Angel Down - Daniel Kraus

The 35 Best Books of 2025 Esquire: Adam Morgan

Gliff - Ali Smith

The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe

There Is No Place for Us - Brian Goldstone

Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama

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

2025 Best Books of the Year Shelf Awareness

The Wilderness - Angela Flournoy

The Best Reads of 2025 WBEZ

Nobody's Girl - Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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

Good Dirt - Charmaine Wilkerson

The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

Best Books of 2025 USA Today

Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon

10 Notable Books of 2025 AP

Flashlight - Susan Choi

The 20 Best Books of 2025 Town & Country

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

The 15 Best Books of 2025 People

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

Best Books of 2025 Book Riot

Toni at Random - Dana A. Williams

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

Flesh - David Szalay

The 15 Best Books of 2025 Los Angeles Times

The Antidote - Karen Russell

10 Favorite Books of 2025 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Overshoot - Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

The Year 2025 in Ten Books Verso Books

The Perfect Tuba - Sam Quinones

10 Best Books of 2025 California Review of Books

The Director - Daniel Kehlmann

The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic

A Marriage at Sea - Sophie Elmhirst

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Slate: Laura Miller

A Marriage at Sea - Sophie Elmhirst

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

Helm - Sarah Hall

Best Books of 2025 Independent: Martin Chilton

Ultramarine - Mariette Navarro

43 Favorite Books of 2025 Lit Hub

Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

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