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The 10 Best Books of 2025
Manage episode 522275624 series 2932312
All year long, the staff of The New York Times Book Review conducts a running discussion over what belongs on its year-end Top 10 list. In this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz gathers a group of fellow Book Review editors to talk about the most exciting fiction and nonfiction of the year.
Here are the books discussed in this week’s episode:
Fiction
- “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” by Kiran Desai
- “Angel Down,” by Daniel Kraus
- “The Sisters,” by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
- “The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann
- “Stone Yard Devotional,” by Charlotte Wood
Nonfiction
- “A Marriage at Sea,” by Sophie Elmhirst
- “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
Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
570 episodes
Manage episode 522275624 series 2932312
All year long, the staff of The New York Times Book Review conducts a running discussion over what belongs on its year-end Top 10 list. In this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz gathers a group of fellow Book Review editors to talk about the most exciting fiction and nonfiction of the year.
Here are the books discussed in this week’s episode:
Fiction
- “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” by Kiran Desai
- “Angel Down,” by Daniel Kraus
- “The Sisters,” by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
- “The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann
- “Stone Yard Devotional,” by Charlotte Wood
Nonfiction
- “A Marriage at Sea,” by Sophie Elmhirst
- “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
Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
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