Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NPR’s list is better.

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2025

That is a list of 384 books!

With so much variety in style and genre! A saw several of my five star reads from this year on there!

WaPo’s list is strangely short. I don’t trust people who only have a few favorites from a year of reading. Sounds like they can’t pick out books.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NPR’s list is better.

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2025

That is a list of 384 books!

I dislike the way NPR has made their “list” the past few years. It’s not a list, it’s just a dump of all the major books of that year.

Anonymous wrote:NPR’s list is better.

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2025

That is a list of 384 books!

NPR’s list is better.

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2025

Here you go:


Fiction

“Ruth
Kate Riley

The Slip
Lucas Schaefer

Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood

The Wayfinder
Adam Johnson

The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy

Nonfiction

The Fate of the Day
The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Rick Atkinson

A Flower Traveled in My Blood
The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Haley Cohen Gilliland

Gertrude Stein
An Afterlife
Francesca Wade

Melting Point
Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
Rachel Cockerell

Motherland
A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Julia Ioffe“


https://www.yearendlists.com/2025/washington-post-the-10-best-books-of-2025

I apologize - I don't subscribe to WaPo. Thanks!