Audition
Katie Kitamura
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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Flashlight
Susan Choi
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Flesh
David Szalay
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
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The Sisters
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
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Trip
Amie Barrodale
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What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
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The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
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Will There Ever Be Another You
Patricia Lockwood
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Disinheritance
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Cape Fever
Nadia Davids
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Some Bright Nowhere
Ann Packer
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Lightbreakers
Aja Gabel
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Before I Forget
Tory Henwood Hoen
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Estate
Cynthia Zarin
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A Love Story from the End of the World
Juhea Kim
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Best Offer Wins
Marisa Kashino
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The Award
Matthew Pearl
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Looking for Tank Man
Ha Jin
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Analog Days
Damion Searls
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Cursed Daughters
Oyinkan Braithwaite
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Bog Queen
Anna North
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Venetian Vespers
John Banville
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Television
Lauren Rothery
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The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller
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The Eleventh Hour
Salman Rushdie
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A Different Kind of Tension
Jonathan Lethem
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On the Calculation of Volume III
Solvej Balle
Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell and Barbara J. Haveland
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Palaver
Bryan Washington
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At Last
Marisa Silver
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Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
Claire-Louise Bennett
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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Rabih Alameddine
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The Mind Reels
Fredrik deBoer
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Pick a Color
Souvankham Thammavongsa
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A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
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The Ten Year Affair
Erin Somers
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What a Time to Be Alive
Jade Chang
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Near Flesh
Katherine Dunn
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The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter
Peter Orner
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This Kind of Trouble
Tochi Eze
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The Unbroken Coast
Nalini Jones
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The Four Spent the Day Together
Chris Kraus
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Muscle Man
Jordan Castro
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Information Age
Cora Lewis
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Heart the Lover
Lily King
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God and Sex
Jon Raymond
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Dusk
Robbie Arnott
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World Pacific
Peter Mann
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A New New Me
Helen Oyeyemi
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Pariah
Dan Fesperman
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Culpability
Bruce Holsinger
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Moderation
Elaine Castillo
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The Girls Who Grew Big
Leila Mottley
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The Scrapbook
Heather Clark
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Long Distance
Ayşegül Savaş
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The Compound
Aisling Rawle
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The Doorman
Chris Pavone
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Among Friends
Hal Ebbott
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The House on Buzzards Bay
Dwyer Murphy
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Endling
Maria Reva
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The Nimbus
Robert P. Baird
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Spent
Alison Bechdel
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The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
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Heart, Be at Peace
Donal Ryan
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The South
Tash Aw
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The Words of Dr. L
Karen E. Bender
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The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong
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Happiness Forever
Adelaide Faith
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Other Worlds
André Alexis
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The Imagined Life
Andrew Porter
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The Float Test
Lynn Steger Strong
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Mỹ Documents
Kevin Nguyen
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The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
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Tilt
Emma Pattee
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Dream State
Eric Puchner
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Goddess Complex
Sanjena Sathian
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What You Make of Me
Sophie Madeline Dess
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Notes on Surviving the Fire
Christine Murphy
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The Boyhood of Cain
Michael Amherst
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Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Theory & Practice
Michelle de Kretser
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A Gorgeous Excitement
Cynthia Weiner
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Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood
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Code Noir
Canisia Lubrin
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Victorian Psycho
Virginia Feito
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The Riveter
Jack Wang
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The Dissenters
Youssef Rakha
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Blob
Maggie Su
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My Darling Boy
John Dufresne
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The Vanishing Point
Paul Theroux
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Too Soon
Betty Shamieh
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Gliff
Ali Smith
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Going Home
Tom Lamont
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The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant
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Another Man in the Street
Caryl Phillips
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Rosarita
Anita Desai
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Playworld
Adam Ross
