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#1 and a few honorable mentions – The 2025 Best Reads List is complete
Don’t call it a book about gaming. Gabrielle Zevin has written a book about life.
Heartlands
“To Know the Country Whole”
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#2 – The Antidote by Karen Russell – 2025 Best Reads
Karen Russell knows how to show up the spiritual whirlwinds that linger in placid and forgotten landscapes.
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#3 – A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan – 2025 Best Reads
Abraham Lincoln may be the most written-about US President, but you’ve never seen him through Cage Weatherby’s eyes.
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#4 – Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel – 2025 Best Reads
The reign of Henry VIII got messier in the second entry in Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy. But Thomas Cromwell remained on top of his game.
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#5 – We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston – 2025 Best Reads
Surprise! A tale of Texas makes the Top 10 Best Reads of 2025.
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#6 – Erasure by Percival Everett – 2025 Best Reads
Percival Everett makes the Top 10 list for the second straight year.
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#7 – Middlemarch by George Eliot – Best Reads
It only took 150 years for George Eliot to make the Best Reads list.
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#8 – Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan – 2025 Best Reads
A timeless tale, well-told. Claire Keegan brings in the next Best Read.
Heartlands 