Silence of the Gods
Francis Young
The TLS
Books of the year 2025
The TLS contributors’ books of 2025: 75 books, in the order the piece names them.
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Indignity
Lea Ypi
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Crooked Cross
Sally Carson
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38 Londres Street
Philippe Sands
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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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Storyteller
Leo Damrosch
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Electric Spark
Frances Wilson
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Ellmann’s Joyce
Zachary Leader
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Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
Claire-Louise Bennett
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Between the Waves
Tom McTague
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The Work We Need
Hilary Cottam
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On Friendship
Andrew O’Hagan
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On Antisemitism
Mark Mazower
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The Usual Desire to Kill
Camilla Barnes
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Dr Chizhevsky’s Chandelier
Dan Elkind
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Allies at War
Tim Bouverie
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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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The Celts
Ian Stewart
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Namanlagh
Tom Paulin
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Thomas Mann
Tilmann Lahme
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Gather
Kenneth M. Cadow
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How to End a Story
Helen Garner
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Homework
Geoff Dyer
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I Have Avenged America
Julia Gaffield
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Dark Laboratory
Tao Leigh Goffe
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The Bonds of Freedom
Jake Subryan Richards
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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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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Nate Soares
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Silk Work
Imogen Cassels
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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Love and Need
Adam Plunkett
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Fower Pessoas
Colin Bramwell
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Venetian Vespers
John Banville
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Queer Cambridge
Simon Goldhill
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Burma Sahib
Paul Theroux
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Comment Ça Va Pas?
Delphine Horvilleur
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The Predicament
William Boyd
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The English Understand Wool
Helen DeWitt
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Captives and Companions
Justin Marozzi
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Nations in Arms
Barney White-Spunner
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The Scientist Who Wasn’t There
Joanne Briggs
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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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Soft
Ferdinand Mount
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Escape from Shadow Physics
Adam Forrest Kay
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Literature and Learning
Stefan Collini
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Paul Weller
Dan Jennings
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From Scenes Like These
Gordon Williams
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A Quiet Evening
Norman Lewis
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Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
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The Scapegoat
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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The Rest of Our Lives
Ben Markovits
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The Jewelers of the Ummah
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
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Bibliographic Performances and Surrogate Readings
Janelle Rebel
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Putting Myself Together
Jamaica Kincaid
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Gertrude Stein
Francesca Wade
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Clown Town
Mick Herron
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Greyhound
Joanna Pocock
