Best Books of 2025: Fiction
At the end of every year, we look at Best Books of the year lists from newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, Time; book vendors like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Libby; book blogs and websites such as Book Riot, Electric Lit, and Vulture, and many more to come up with the ultimate list. This year, we looked at 30 different Best Books of 2025 lists and gave each title a score that represents the number of lists it made it onto to create the ultimate best of list.


30 items
Flashlight
a Novel
Katabasis
a Novel
King of Ashes
a Novel
Atmosphere
a Love Story
What We Can Know
a Novel
The Emperor of Gladness
a Novel
Isola
a Novel
The Director
a Novel
Flesh
a Novel
We Do Not Part
a Novel
Buckeye
a Novel
The Dream Hotel
a Novel
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