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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. →
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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. →
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#9 – By the Word Worked by Fleming Rutledge – 2025 Best Reads
The 2025 Top 10 continues with one of my favorite Virginians – Fleming Rutledge. →
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Among the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers – 2025 Best Reads #10
I’ve been ranking best reads of the year since 2017. Here’s what I wrote by way of criteria from that first year: Since everyone else is doing their end-of-the-year list, I decided to join the fray with a Heartlands Best Reads of 2017. Some caveats: These are books I read in 2017, but they weren’t →
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