Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
The Guardian
Best books of 2025
The Guardian and Observer critics’ books of 2025, in these sections: fiction, translated fiction, poetry, history and politics, memoir and biography, science and nature, crime and thrillers and science fiction and fantasy.
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The Eleventh Hour
Salman Rushdie
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What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
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Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
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Helm
Sarah Hall
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Flesh
David Szalay
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The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
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Dream State
Eric Puchner
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Flashlight
Susan Choi
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Saraswati
Gurnaik Johal
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The South
Tash Aw
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The Tiger’s Share
Keshava Guha
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Audition
Katie Kitamura
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Gunk
Saba Sams
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Seascraper
Benjamin Wood
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The Pretender
Jo Harkin
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Slags
Emma Jane Unsworth
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Endling
Maria Reva
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Eden’s Shore
Oisín Fagan
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The Names
Florence Knapp
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Fundamentally
Nussaibah Younis
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The Benefactors
Wendy Erskine
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Nova Scotia House
Charlie Porter
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Open, Heaven
Seán Hewitt
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We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
Colwill Brown
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To Rest Our Minds and Bodies
Harriet Armstrong
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Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte
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Every One Still Here
Liadan Ní Chuinn
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2016
Sarah Hesketh
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The Book of Jonah
Luke Kennard
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The New Carthaginians
Nick Makoha
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Southernmost Sonnets
Leo Boix
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Wellwater
Karen Solie
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Avidyā
Vidyan Ravinthiran
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Chaotic Good
Isabelle Baafi
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Minx
Karen Downs-Barton
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Nature Matters
Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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New Cemetery
Simon Armitage
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Dwell
Simon Armitage
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Lode
Gillian Allnutt
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Foretokens
Sarah Howe
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That Broke into Shining Crystals
Richard Scott
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The Revolutionists
Jason Burke
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The Alienation Effect
Owen Hatherley
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Lyse Doucet
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A Historian in Gaza
Jean-Pierre Filiu
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What Is Free Speech?
Faramerz Dabhoiwala
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Friends in Youth
Minoo Dinshaw
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Minority Rule
Ash Sarkar
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Wages for Housework
Emily Callaci
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Motherland
Julia Ioffe
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Those Passions
T. J. Clark
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Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
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Original Sin
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
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Ungovernable
Simon Hart
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Get In
Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund
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Book of Lives
Margaret Atwood
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy
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Fly, Wild Swans
Jung Chang
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Matriarch
Tina Knowles
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We Did OK, Kid
Anthony Hopkins
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Vagabond
Tim Curry
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A Mind of My Own
Kathy Burke
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Bread of Angels
Patti Smith
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Truly
Lionel Richie
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The Uncool
Cameron Crowe
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Frankly
Nicola Sturgeon
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A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern
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Death of an Ordinary Man
Sarah Perry
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
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A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews
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Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
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Vermeer
Andrew Graham Dixon
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Electric Spark
Frances Wilson
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Gertrude Stein
Francesca Wade
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Katherine Mansfield
Gerri Kimber
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The Acid Queen
Susannah Cahalan
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Eric Satie Three Piece Suite
Ian Penman
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
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Vanished
Sadiah Qureshi
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Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane
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Ends of the Earth
Neil Shubin
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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad
Simon Parkin
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Super Agers
Eric J. Topol
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The Age of Diagnosis
Suzanne O’Sullivan
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Our Brains, Our Selves
Masud Husain
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Proto
Laura Spinney
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Crick
Matthew Cobb
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Destroyer of Worlds
Frank Close
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Clown Town
Mick Herron
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The Good Liar
Denise Mina
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The Confessions
Paul Bradley Carr
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The Ghosts of Rome
Joseph O’Connor
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The Bureau
Eoin McNamee
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The Death of Us
Abigail Dean
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The Impossible Thing
Belinda Bauer
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Fair Play
Louise Hegarty
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Circular Motion
Alex Foster
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When There Are Wolves Again
E. J. Swift
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Luminous
Silvia Park
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