Lit Hub List of Lists 2025

Here's the 90 books that made it on 5 or more lists, as compiled by Literary Hub.

Updated December 27, 2025
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Canadian Edition : A Novel
Desai, Kiran.
Ebook
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 * TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 * Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail * New York Times * The New Yorker * The Washington Post...
Audition
Kitamura, Katie
Ebook
NAMED A 2025 "ESSENTIAL READ" BY THE NEW YORKER AND A TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZINE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOGUE, TIME...
Flesh Canadian Edition : A Novel
Szalay, David.
Ebook
From Booker Prize-winning author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar...
FLASHLIGHT
CHOI, SUSAN, 1969-
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025** 'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton 'A family epic... Engrossing' Sunday Telegraph 'Extraordinary... Heartbreaking' Roddy Doyle 'Sheer pleasure'...
The emperor of gladness : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller * Oprah's Book Club Pick * Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus Reviews * A 2026...
Shadow ticket
Pynchon, Thomas
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times, Vulture, TIME, The Guardian, The New Republic, and LitHub ...
STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL
Wood, Charlotte.
Paper Book
⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ⭐ The new novel by the bestselling author of The Weekend A Book of the Year for the Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald and ABC 'The fact that Stone Yard...
Dream count : a novel
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires <...
Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection
Green, John
Ebook
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! * #1 Washington Post bestseller! * #1 Indie Bestseller! * USA Today Bestseller! John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the...
Spent : a comic novel
Bechdel, Alison
Paper Book
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction. "Truthful, rueful and delightful."--LA Times In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously...
Storyteller : The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Damrosch, Leo.
Ebook
Girl on girl : how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves
Gilbert, Sophie
Paper Book
From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other--and themselves--with disastrous consequences. An urgent read that addresses questions around the current regression of feminism.<...

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