New York Times Book Review
100 Notable Books of 2025
Best Historical Fiction of 2025
Best Poetry of 2025
Our Favorite Hidden Gem Books of 2025
New York Times / New York Public Library, 2025 Best Illustrated Children’s Book
- Sunday by Marcelo Tolentino, trans. Rahul Bery (Blue Dot Kids Press)
New York Public Library
Best Adult Books of 2025
Best Kids Books of 2025
Best New Horror of 2025
Best New Comics of 2025
Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2025
Booklist, Editors’ Choice
Kirkus Reviews, Best Books of 2025
Washington Post
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
Best Graphic Novels of 2025
Paris Review, Our Favorite Books of 2025
Vulture, Best Books of 2025
Chicago Public Library, Best of the Best Books 2025
Evanston Public Library, 101 Great Books for Kids (2025)
Literary Hub, 43 Favorite Books of 2025
World Literature Today, 75 Notable Translations of 2025
- Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution by Hadi Abdullah, trans. Alessandro Columbu (DoppelHouse Press)
- Happy New Years by Maya Arad, trans. Jessica Cohen (New Vessel Press)
- Mother River by Can Xue, trans. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter)
- The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, trans. David McKay (New Vessel Press)
- The Calf by Leif Høghaug, trans. David M. Smith (Deep Vellum / Fum d'Estampa)
- Spring Mountain: The Complete Poems of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn by Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn, trans. Ian Haight & T’ae-young Hŏ (White Pine Press)
- In Search of a Face (Bilingual Edition) by Aurélia Lassaque, trans. Madeleine Campbell (White Pine Press)
- In the House, Still Light by Klaus Merz, trans. Marc Vincenz (White Pine Press)
- Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece (Bilingual edition) by Nasser Rabah, trans. Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khalid al-Hilli (City Lights Publishers)
- The Jacarandas Whisper by Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, trans. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan (White Pine Press)
- A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories by Tomoka Shibasaki, trans. Polly Barton (Stone Bridge Press)
- Carapace Dancer by Natalia Toledo, trans. Clare Sullivan (Deep Vellum / Phoneme Media)
- Lexicon of Affinities by Ida Vitale, trans. Sean Manning (Charco Press)
- or now I am sitting here growing transparent by Yau Ching, trans. Chenxin Jiang (Zephyr Press)
The Guardian, Best Books of 2025
Fiction
Poetry
- Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran (Bloodaxe Books)
- lode by Gillian Allnutt (Bloodaxe Books)
NPR, Books We Love 2025
TIME, The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Artforum, Best of Books 2025
them, 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025