The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
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The list of lists: the books named on the most year-end lists
2025
The Ultimate Best Books of 2025 List
Lit Hub’s list of lists for 2025: the books named on five or more of the year’s best-books lists, most-named first.
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy
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Audition
Katie Kitamura
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Heart the Lover
Lily King
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A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
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Baldwin
Nicholas Boggs
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
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What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
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Flesh
David Szalay
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Flashlight
Susan Choi
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A Marriage at Sea
Sophie Elmhirst
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The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
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Katabasis
R. F. Kuang
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
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The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong
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King of Ashes
S. A. Cosby
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones
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Raising Hare
Chloe Dalton
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Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane
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The Antidote
Karen Russell
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab
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A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews
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Careless People
Sarah Wynn-Williams
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Isola
Allegra Goodman
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The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
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We the People
Jill Lepore
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Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
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King of Kings
Scott Anderson
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Memorial Days
Geraldine Brooks
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Murderland
Caroline Fraser
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Haley Cohen Gilliland
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The Wayfinder
Adam Johnson
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Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
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Black in Blues
Imani Perry
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Stag Dance
Torrey Peters
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Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Buckeye
Patrick Ryan
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Gertrude Stein
Francesca Wade
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Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood
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Dark Renaissance
Stephen Greenblatt
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Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor
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Buckley
Sam Tanenhaus
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Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Book of Lives
Margaret Atwood
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Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
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Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins
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The Dry Season
Melissa Febos
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green
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Theft
Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Clown Town
Mick Herron
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The Sisters
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
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Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
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John & Paul
Ian Leslie
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An Oral History of Atlantis
Ed Park
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The Hounding
Xenobe Purvis
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The Slip
Lucas Schaefer
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Bread of Angels
Patti Smith
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Searches
Vauhini Vara
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Electric Spark
Frances Wilson
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The Fate of the Day
Rick Atkinson
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The South
Tash Aw
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Spent
Alison Bechdel
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Storyteller
Leo Damrosch
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Lyse Doucet
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The Harder I Fight the More I Love You
Neko Case
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The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
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Sky Daddy
Kate Folk
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Heartwood
Amity Gaige
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Black Moses
Caleb Gayle
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Girl on Girl
Sophie Gilbert
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Helm
Sarah Hall
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry
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The Names
Florence Knapp
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Paper Girl
Beth Macy
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I Regret Almost Everything
Keith McNally
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The Age of Diagnosis
Suzanne O’Sullivan
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Replaceable You
Mary Roach
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Playworld
Adam Ross
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Hostage
Eli Sharabi
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Minor Black Figures
Brandon Taylor
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Lonely Crowds
Stephanie Wambugu
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Palaver
Bryan Washington
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Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
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Fundamentally
Nussaibah Younis
