Crooked Cross
Sally Carson
Books of the year 2025
The TLS contributors’ books of 2025: 75 books, in the order the piece names them.
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The Anchorage
Bernard O’Donoghue
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Wellwater
Karen Solie
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The South
Tash Aw
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Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
Claire-Louise Bennett
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The Usual Desire to Kill
Camilla Barnes
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Foretokens
Sarah Howe
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El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo
Javier Cercas
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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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Arborescence
Rhett Davis
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Namanlagh
Tom Paulin
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Gather
Kenneth M. Cadow
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Just About Anything
Jonathan Aaron
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Only Sing
John Berryman
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Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
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Pick a Colour
Souvankham Thammavongsa
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There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak
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Jesus Christ Kinski
Benjamin Myers
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Silk Work
Imogen Cassels
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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Fower Pessoas
Colin Bramwell
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Venetian Vespers
John Banville
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Burma Sahib
Paul Theroux
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The Predicament
William Boyd
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The English Understand Wool
Helen DeWitt
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I Want to Go Home but I’m Already There
Róisín Lanigan
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TonyInterruptor
Nicola Barker
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From Scenes Like These
Gordon Williams
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Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
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The Rest of Our Lives
Ben Markovits
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Clown Town
Mick Herron
