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Publishers Weekly
The trade magazine’s reviewers pick the year’s best fiction
2025
Best Books 2025: Fiction
Publishers Weekly’s reviewers’ best fiction of 2025.
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Atavists
Lydia Millet
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Bog Queen
Anna North
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Counting Backwards
Binnie Kirshenbaum
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Endling
Maria Reva
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Flesh
David Szalay
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Fox
Joyce Carol Oates
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God and Sex
Jon Raymond
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Martha’s Daughter
David Haynes
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Open Up
Thomas Morris
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Pick a Color
Souvankham Thammavongsa
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Sky Daddy
Kate Folk
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So Far Gone
Jess Walter
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Softie
Megan Howell
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Twist
Colum McCann
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Universality
Natasha Brown
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The Wayfinder
Adam Johnson
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The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy