Joy Is My Middle Name
Sasha Debevec-McKenney
The New Yorker
Best books of 2025
The New Yorker’s books of 2025: 24 main picks and 312 more recommendations, across fiction, poetry and nonfiction.
Main picks
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Ocean of Clouds
Garrett Hongo
Also recommended
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Flop Era
Lara Egger
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Dante
Prue Shaw
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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The Natural Order of Things
Donika Kelly
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Startlement
Ada Limón
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There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die
Tove Ditlevsen
Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
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Helen of Troy, 1993
Maria Zoccola
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New and Collected Hell
Shane McCrae