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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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Spent
Alison Bechdel
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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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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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Playworld
Adam Ross
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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
