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This isnt a comprehensive list, of coursebut s a sampling of what we’re most excited about.
It may not yet be reading-outside weather, but that hasn’t stopped us from looking ahead at the best books of 2025—for the winter or warmer months to come.
(You wont find any sketchy preview-bang out blurbs here.
These are books weve actually read and loved.)
double-check to mark this page; well be updating it as the seasons shift again.
When the levee finally breaks, the outcome is both heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful.
But is it even realor a cunning deepfake?
Brennan was a celebrated, glamorous Irish writer with aNew Yorkercolumn that observed the city.
In the six years shes been away, her estranged father has died.
Long may the Brennan revival continue.
Though she was deep into writing an entirely different novel, she worked onIsolain the afternoons.
Its a remarkable origins story given that nothing aboutIsolabetrays its authors divided attention.
Her fourth novel,The Echoes(Knopf), shows her in good, ghostly form.
Or, more precisely, why is it that we venerate the figures who hold themselves most aloof?
Latronicos depiction of these freelance creatives is laceratingly astute.
Thats whereEarly Thirties(Gallery/Scout Press), the debut novel from formerVanity FairwriterJosh Duboff, comes in.
While she is there, an earthquake strikes, wreaking havoc and destruction on her city.
All modes of communication are foreclosed; infrastructure crumbles.
Youll be rooting for her through every page of this searing memoir.
This novel is sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny.
In tow are Demians trans teenage daughter and Totos unlikely hookup, nicknamed The Flake.
Picaresque, amusing, and brisk, this is a worldly hangout novel of 21st-century manners.
The second section depicts a reality in which he actuallyisher son.
Its summer, herbacexam looms and then university, but Severine is restless and longs for notoriety.
Her wish is granted when shes kidnapped by a youth-led Corsican nationalist sect and held for political ransom.
Plausibility is less important toBombshellthan pace and action, and Severines remorselessness becomes an object of narrative fascination.
Youthful idealism is fun, but what happens when the bill comes due?
The final pages provide a touching answer you dont quite expect.
The final pages, as in Moshfeghs work, will move readers with their unlikely and ultimately transcendent beauty.
Abruptly, Sylvie must consider what it means to branch beyond her comfortable, insulated existence.
This accomplished debut tackles complex topicsobsession, grief, and abuse among themwith remarkable clarity and humor.
(His conservative Chinese parents also never envisioned him dating a trans woman.)
To be inhaled in one sitting.
