Year-End Lists

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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

Angel Down - Daniel Kraus

Esquire: Adam Morgan The 35 Best Books of 2025

Palaver - Bryan Washington

Boston Globe The Best Books of 2025

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2025

The Hounding - Xenobe Purvis

Shelf Awareness 2025 Best Books of the Year

Ruth - Kate Riley

Jezebel: Nora Biette-Timmons The Best New Novels of 2025

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

Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy

Town & Country The 20 Best Books of 2025

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

People The 15 Best Books of 2025

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad

Book Riot Best Books of 2025

Dead and Alive - Zadie Smith

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

Flashlight - Susan Choi

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

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You - Neko Case

California Review of Books 10 Best Books of 2025

A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar

Atlantic The Best Books of 2025

Murderland - Caroline Fraser

Slate: Laura Miller The 10 Best Books of 2025

A Marriage at Sea - Sophie Elmhirst

New Yorker The Best Books of 2025

A Marriage at Sea - Sophie Elmhirst

Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli The 10 Best Books of 2025

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