The 10 Best Books of 2025
The Book Review2 Joulu 2025

The 10 Best Books of 2025

All year long, the staff of The New York Times Book Review conducts a running discussion over what belongs on its year-end Top 10 list. In this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz gathers a group of fellow Book Review editors to talk about the most exciting fiction and nonfiction of the year.

Here are the books discussed in this week’s episode:

Fiction

  • “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” by Kiran Desai
  • “Angel Down,” by Daniel Kraus
  • “The Sisters,” by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
  • “The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann
  • “Stone Yard Devotional,” by Charlotte Wood

Nonfiction

  • “A Marriage at Sea,” by Sophie Elmhirst
  • “Wild Thing,” by Sue Prideaux
  • “Mother Emanuel,” by Kevin Sack
  • “There Is No Place for Us," by Brian Goldstone
  • “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” by Arundhati Roy

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