# The New York Times' 10 best books of 2025

The ten books the New York Times Book Review picked as the best of 2025: five fiction and five non-fiction.

- 3 votes · 10 items
- Dec 3, 2025 · Мария Васильева
- https://even.best/en/l/1633/the-new-york-times-10-best-books-of-2025

## Top 10

1. **Angel Down — Daniel Kraus** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fiction.
2. **A Marriage at Sea — Sophie Elmhirst** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
3. **Mother Emanuel — Kevin Sack** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
4. **The Director — Daniel Kehlmann** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
5. **The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
6. **The Sisters — Jonas Hassen Khemiri** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
7. **Stone Yard Devotional — Charlotte Wood** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
8. **Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
9. **There Is No Place for Us — Brian Goldstone** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
10. **Wild Thing — Sue Prideaux** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.

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