📚the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2025

the Book Review's year-end ten. five fiction five nonfiction, no ranking inside each half (their rule, not mine)

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

her first novel in almost 20 years, (deserved) honestly

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann

the shortlist was better this year tbh but this one earned its spot

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

true story, a couple adrift for 117 days. couldn't put it down

Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux

Mother Emanuel by Kevin Sack

There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

her mother's death, not the singer. people ask me this every year

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