The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

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The books that moved and delighted us, sparked conversations, and opened our minds

All That We See or Seem

by Ken Liu

All the Way to the River

by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Antidote

by Karen Russell

Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Audition

by Katie Kitamura

Bad Bad Girl

by Gish Jen

Baldwin

by Nicholas Boggs

Black in Blues

by Imani Perry

Boleyn Traitor

by Philippa Gregory

Book of Lives

by Margaret Atwood

The Book of Records

by Madeleine Thien

Bread of Angels

by Patti Smith

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

by Stephen Graham Jones

Careless People

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

The Catch

by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Claire McCardell

by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

The Colonel and the King

by Peter Guralnick

Crush

by Ada C

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