Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
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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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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The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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Lode
Gillian Allnutt
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Foretokens
Sarah Howe
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Original Sin
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
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Death of an Ordinary Man
Sarah Perry
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A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews
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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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