Best Books to Gift 2025 - Adult Fiction

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Updated November 25, 2025
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The secret of secrets : a novel
Brown, Dan
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world's most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet--a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do. ...
The killing stones
Cleeves, Ann
Paper Book
The Killing Stones marks the eagerly awaited return of Ann Cleeves' beloved detectives from the Shetland series, and a gripping new investigation with a stunning new setting, from the New York Times bestselling author and creator of three iconic detectives beloved in TV...
The correspondent : a novel
Evans, Virginia
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as "A cause for celebration"--an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love. "The...
The three lives of Cate Kay
Fagan, Kate (Sports writer)
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named A Best Book of 2025 by Time Magazine, NPR, Goodreads, and others. "[A] propulsive puzzle of a novel." --New York Times Book Review "This story swept me away with its big...
The wilderness : a novel
Flournoy, Angela
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "Flournoy has delivered a future classic--the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time."...
A guardian and a thief
Majumdar, Megha
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE * Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times...
Wild dark shore (Large Print)
McConaghy, Charlotte
Paper Book
An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his...
What We Can Know
McEwan, Ian
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known...
Overdue
Perkins, Stephanie
Paper Book
The hounding : a novel
Purvis, Xenobe
Paper Book
An Indie Next Pick One of the Los Angeles Times's Must-Read Books of Summer 2025 One of Harper's Bazaar's Best Beach Reads to Keep You Occupied All Summer Long Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by NPR, Time, LitHub, Paste, and PopVerse ...
Pick a color : a novel
Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE From O. Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away...

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