The Ten Best Books I Read in 2025

(alphabetically by author, and regardless of when they were published)

 

  • On the Calculation of Volume, Book III by Solvej Balle

  • Blood Music by Greg Bear

  • A Preponderance of Starry Beings: Stories by Samantha Edmonds

  • Letters from an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss

  • It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays by Tom McAllister

  • Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place by Scott McClanahan

  • The Antidote by Karen Russell

  • A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Charlie J. Stephens

  • Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

  • The Horse by Willy Vlautin


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