It will be interesting to see if and where major award winners appear. Notable works include Lucas Schaeffer’s The Slip, which won the Kirkus Novel Prize, and David Zareh’s Flesh, which won the Man Booker Prize. I can’t find Rabbi Alameddin’s National Book Award winner “The True Story of the Gullible Rajah (and His Mother)”. Most reviews are warm but not glowing, considering the lack of full reviews. timesYou will be surprised to see it in the top 10.
We talked about a bunch of books on the Book Riot Podcast list this year. Eavesdrop on our book club conversation:
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Best bookstores of 2025
The good folks at Bookshop.org have shared with us a list of this year’s best fiction and best nonfiction. This selection includes many frequent flyers from their best seasons in 2025 to date, as well as smaller press outlets and lesser-known players. It’s a nice variety that seems to be pretty reflective of Bookshop’s indie sensibilities, but I wish it had come with a blurb about how and why the Bookshop team chose these particular titles.
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There’s no TV like Vince Gilligan. If you’re just as excited to many people This is good news for my family as well. Liberty Hardy recommended five books to keep the mood going.


