The best books of 2025 (plus a few late-2024 favorites)

The Best Books of the Year: 2025

It’s just over a week until Christmas and the AU Books Team have been busy making their lists, rating their books, and agonising over their choices for their favourite books of 2025. It’s never an easy task and it’s practically impossible to pick just one, so we let them pick a few.  Of course this...

Michael Roberts - Books of the Year 2025

A handy overview of some of 2025’s most stimulating books about political economy. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Every year at this [...]

Books: the best reads of 2025

Books The best reads of 2025 Indignity (by Lea Ypi), We Were There (Lanre Bakare), Heart Lamp (Banu Mushtaq), Minority Rule (Ash Sarkar), I Want To Go Home But I’m Already There (Róisín Lanigan). Artwork by Hyphen. Book covers courtesy of publishers Short stories, family histories and a supernatural satire on millennial renting all feature on this year’s list Diyora ShadijanovaColumnist 15 December 2025 Now that we’re properly settling into the…

The Best Books of 2025

The Best Books of 2025 The idea of being overwhelmed by all the world’s available information is not unique to the digital age. Back in the late eighteenth century, readers were already lamenting a Bücherflut – a flood of books that outpaced any hope of total mastery. At the Leipzig book fair of 1799, printers and scholars complained that universal erudition had finally slipped out of human reach: it was now impossible to read literally everythi…

The best books of 2025 (plus a few late-2024 favorites)

A collage features KPBS staffers' favorite books of 2025. Clockwise from top left: Avid Reader Press / Saga Press / Penguin Random House / Dey Street / Dark Horse / Scholastic / Ballantine / Page Street / Rick Steves.(KPBS Staff)KPBS staffers spent the year reading across genres, moods and moments — and we won’t pretend we stayed perfectly on schedule. While this is our roundup of the best books of 2025, a few 2024 titles lingered long enough to…