Best Books of 2025: Nonfiction
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.


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Baldwin
a Love Story
A Marriage at Sea
a True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Raising Hare
a Memoir
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
the Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
King of Kings
the Iranian Revolution : a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Memorial Days
a Memoir
Black in Blues
How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Murderland
Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
The Fate of the Day
the War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Girl on Girl
How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Joyride
a Memoir
Replaceable You
Adventures in Human Anatomy
Searches
Selfhood in the Digital Age
We the People
a History of the U.S. Constitution
Careless People
a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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