Best Novels To Read 2025. Named a best book of the year (so far) for 2025 by the new york times, barnes & noble, and amazon editors, and longlisted for the booker prize. The judges of the walter scott prize aim to highlight the very best new historical novels, and in 2025 they have settled on a varied shortlist featuring a trinidadian tragedy, a vatican.

Named a best book of the year (so far) for 2025 by the new york times, barnes & noble, and amazon editors, and longlisted for the booker prize. The protagonist of poet kaveh akbar’s devastating debut novel is grappling with a death that shaped him from an early age.