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Notable Books of 2025

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize
The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025

Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs
Nonfiction


Capitalism and its Critics: A History
John Cassidy
Nonfiction


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Nonfiction


Financial Times: Best Books of 2025: Architecture and Design

Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs
Izzy Kornblatt (Edtor)
Nonfiction


Financial Times: Best Books of 2025: Architecture and Design

Finding Ella Briggs
Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira
Nonfiction


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

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
Nonfiction


Esquire: The 27 Best Books of 2025 (So Far)
The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
Nonfiction


The New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2025
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize

Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst
Nonfiction


The New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2025
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize

Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy
Nonfiction


National Book Award Winner

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025

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


The New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2025

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone
Nonfiction


Publishers Weekly: Top 10 Books of 2025

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
Jordan Thomas
Nonfiction


The New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2025

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux
Nonfiction



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The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction
Esquire: The 27 Best Books of 2025 (So Far)
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

The Antidote
Karen Russell
Fiction


Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize
Publishers Weekly: Top 10 Books of 2025
Esquire: The 27 Best Books of 2025 (So Far)
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

 

Audition
Katie Kitamura
Fiction


Esquire: The 27 Best Books of 2025 (So Far)
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
Fiction


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Esquire:
The 27 Best Books of 2025 (So Far)

Death Takes Me
Cristina Rivera Garza
Fiction


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025

The Director
Daniel Kehlmann
Fiction


Exit Zero
Marie-Helene Bertino
Fiction


Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize
2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Flashlight
Susan Choi
Fiction


Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize
The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025

Flesh
David Szalay
Fiction


Fonseca
Jessica Francis Kane
Fiction


Finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize
The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Esquire: The 27 Best Books of 2025 (So Far)
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
Fiction


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Heart the Lover
Lily King
Fiction


Finalist for the Kirkus Prize
The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Isola
Allegra Goodman
Fiction


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Katabasis: A Novel
R.F. Kuang
Fiction


Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize
The New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
Fiction


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Katie Yee
Fiction


Finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction

North Sun, or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Ethan Rutherford
Fiction


Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025

Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico ; translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes
Fiction


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Raising Hare
Chloe Dalton
Fiction


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
Fiction


Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction
The New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2025
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2025

The Sisters
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Fiction


Longlisted for the Booker Prize
The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025

Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

The South
Tash Aw
Fiction


Winner of the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

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


The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Time
: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

We Do Not Part
Han Kang
Fiction


Longlisted for 2025 National Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize

The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
Fiction




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