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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Lit Hub List of Lists 2025

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

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The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : a novel
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF PEOPLE'S TOP 5 BOOKS OF THE YEAR BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
Mother Mary comes to me
Roy, Arundhati
Paper Book
Named One of the New York Times Book Review's Top Ten Books of 2025 Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her...
Audition
Kitamura, Katie
Paper Book
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...
Heart the lover : a novel
King, Lily
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF 2025: TIME Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Harper's Baazar, NPR, Vogue, Oprah Daily, People Magazine, USA TODAY, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Kirkus Review, BookPage, Apple, Spotify,...
A guardian and a thief
Majumdar, Megha
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Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning--longlisted for the National Book Award--is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children...
Baldwin : a love story
Boggs, Nicholas
Paper Book
AN ATLANTIC TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025 Drawing on new archival material, original research, and...
One day, everyone will have always been against this
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER * LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM * From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful...
What we can know : a novel
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...
Flesh : a novel
Szalay, David
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE AND A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence From "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captivating...hypnotic.....
Flashlight : a novel
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Time * New York * The Washington Post * NPR * Los Angeles Times * The Guardian * Oprah Daily * Financial Times * The Economist...
A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
Elmhirst, Sophie
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE "This is nonfiction that...
WILDERNESS
FLOURNOY, ANGELA
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE Named one of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year ...
The director : a novel
Kehlmann, Daniel
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A Washington Post NOTABLE BOOK A Late Show with Stephen Colbert Book Club Pick "Nothing short of brilliant." --The Wall Street Journal From "a...
Katabasis : a novel
Kuang, R. F.
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Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save...
Things in nature merely grow
Li, Yiyun
Paper Book
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical...
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...
King of ashes : a novel
Cosby, S. A.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Propulsive and powerful. . . A gripping roller coaster ride of escalating danger." --New York Times Book Review"Pick up the novel everyone will be talking about." --The Atlantic...
The buffalo hunter hunter
Jones, Stephen Graham
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New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025 A Barack Obama Summer Read A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year Kirkus Reviews Best Historical...
We do not part : a novel
Han, Kang
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, AND THE NBCC BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE
RAISING HARE
DALTON, CHLOE
Paper Book
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare....
Is a river alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an...
The antidote
Russell, Karen
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION * LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur...
Bury our bones in the midnight soil
Schwab, Victoria
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ALL first edition copies will be signed by the author! Signed copies available while supplies last. "Unmissable... Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab" --Jodi Picoult #1 New York Times bestseller * #1 USA Today bestseller * #1...
Careless people : a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism
Wynn-Williams, Sarah
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#1 New York Times Bestseller A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, AP, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE! "Careless People is darkly...
Isola : a novel
Goodman, Allegra
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history."--Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name "A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a...
The dream hotel : a novel
Lalami, Laila
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER ● READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● From Laila Lalami--the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a "maestra of literary fiction" (NPR)--comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman's fight for freedom, set in...
We the people : a history of the U.S. Constitution
Lepore, Jill
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The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades--and an essential companion to her...
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 ...
King of kings : the Iranian revolution : a story of hubris, delusion and catastrophic miscalculation
Anderson, Scott
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER * From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern...
Memorial days
Brooks, Geraldine
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller · Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A Time Best Memoir of 2025 · Named a...
Murderland : crime and bloodlust in the time of serial killers
Fraser, Caroline
Paper Book
A National Bestseller * A Washington Post Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Forbes, NPR, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, and The Nerve * A finalist...
A flower traveled in my blood : the incredible true story of the grandmothers who fought to find a stolen generation of children
Cohen Gilliland, Haley
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 * THE WASHINGTON POST'S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 * THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 * THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 * TIME MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 * NPR'S BEST BOOKS...
WAYFINDER
JOHNSON, ADAM
Paper Book
Named one of Ten Best Books of 2025 by The Wall Street JournalNamed one of Ten Best Books of 2025 by The Washington PostNamed a Best Novel of 2025 by NPR and Publishers WeeklyNamed a Best Historical Novel of 2025 by The New York Times...
Perfection
Latronico, Vincenzo
Wild dark shore
McConaghy, Charlotte
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, TIME, USA Today, The Economist, Scientific American, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest,...
Stag dance : a novel & stories
Peters, Torrey
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory."--People "Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious."--Miranda...
ATMOSPHERE: A LOVE STORY
REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go...
Buckeye : a novel
Ryan, Patrick
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * "A glorious sweep of a novel" (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century. "Mesmerizing."--...
Stone yard devotional
Wood, Charlotte
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award...
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
OKORAFOR, NNEDI
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Order now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last―featuring a special alternate cover design on the hardcover case, gorgeous sprayed edges, and exclusive endpapers. This breathtaking edition is only available on a limited...
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 <...
Book of lives : a memoir of sorts
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE WASHINGTON POST * How does the greatest writer of our time tell her own story? "The most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter...
Mark Twain
Chernow, Ron
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times Bestseller * One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025* A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews ...
Sunrise on the reaping
Collins, Suzanne
Paper Book
The unforgettable fifth book in the Hunger Games series: Haymitch's story. Feature film scheduled for November 2026. #1 USA Today Bestseller * #1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Bestseller * #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller * A New York Times Editors'...
The dry season : a memoir of pleasure in a year without sex
Febos, Melissa
Paper Book
From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge. "Only Melissa Febos could...
Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection
Green, John
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller * #1 Washington Post bestseller * #1 Indie Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's...
Theft
Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Paper Book
Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025 In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania....
Clown town
Herron, Mick
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "May be the best Slow Horses book to date."--The Wall Street Journal THE NEW NOVEL IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV Jackson Lamb and the bad spies...
Abundance
Klein, Ezra
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 * NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 * KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2025 * NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 "A must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming...
John & Paul : a love story in songs
Leslie, Ian
Paper Book
Instant New York Times bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 * Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, The Economist, and The Financial Times "We think we know everything, but author Ian Leslie proves otherwise. His new...
The hounding : a novel
Purvis, Xenobe
Paper Book
National Bestseller * A New York Times Editor''s Choice Pick * A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, TIME and Kirkus Reviews * The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five...
The slip : a novel
Schaefer, Lucas
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE One of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025 One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2025 For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a...
Bread of angels
Smith, Patti
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, THE NEW YORKER "God whispers through a crease in the...
Searches : selfhood in the digital age
Vara, Vauhini
Paper Book
From the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connection A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Esquire, Slate, Scientific American,...
The fate of the day : the war for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Atkinson, Rick
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the bestselling author of The British Are Coming, George Washington's army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat. Rick Atkinson is featured in the new Ken...
The south : a novel
Aw, Tash
Paper Book
Long-listed for the Booker Prize Named one of The New York Times's Notable Books of the Year One of The Washington Post's Best Fiction Books of the Year A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two...
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, Leopold
Paper Book
From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction Best of 2025 Lists: Wall Street Journal, Top 10 * Economist * ...
The correspondent : a novel
Evans, Virginia
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 NATIONAL 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.
Sky daddy : a novel
Folk, Kate
Paper Book
"[A] bizarre and endearing debut . . . We can't remember the last time we met a character this singular or read a book this funny."--Oprah Daily (Best New Books to Read This Spring) "Sleek and darkly comical . . . with the melancholic wit and whimsy of Miranda July."...
Heartwood : a novel
Gaige, Amity
Paper Book
"The best thriller of 2025." --The Boston Globe * "Genius." --The Washington Post "A literary thriller of the highest order" (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping...
Girl on girl : how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves
Gilbert, Sophie
Paper Book
A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book * Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, NPR, Elle, and The Boston Globe "Searing... rigorously researched but never stuffy... Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive...
Helm
Hall, Sarah
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Observer, Financial Times, Daily Mail, The Independent, and the Chicago Public Library * From the twice-Booker-nominated writer of Burntcoat, a bold and astonishing literary masterpiece that...
NAMES
KNAPP, FLORENCE
Paper Book
THE YEAR'S BREAKOUT NOVEL AND WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT--A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND READ WITH JENNA PICK "Dazzling. . . Knapp tirelessly and beautifully replicates not just loss and grief but endless rebirth and delight." --The Washington Post "Elegant. . ....
Great big beautiful life
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry. As...
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