De Britse omroep BBC heeft een lijst samengesteld met de 25 beste boeken van 2025.

* Daniel Kehlmann – The Director
* Claire-Louise Bennett – Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
* Maria Reva – Endling
* Ian McEwan – What We Can Know
* Benjamin Wood – Seascraper
* Patricia Lockwood – Will There Ever Be Another You
* Sarah Hall – Helm
* Samantha Schweblin – Good and Evil and Other Stories
* Susan Choi – Flashlight
* RF Kuang – Katabasis
* Charlotte Rucie – Bring the House Down
* Kiran Desai – The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
* Gish Jen – Bad Bad Girl
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Dream Count
* Han Kang – We Do Not Part
* Torrey Peters – Stag Dance
* Abdulrazak Gurnah – Theft
* Natasha Brown – Universality
* Florence Knapp – The Names
* Ocean Vuong – The Emperor of Gladness
* Oisín Fagan – Eden’s Shore
* Eric Puchner – Dream State
* Laila Lalami – The Dream Hotel
* Catherine Airey – Confessions
* David Szalay – Flesh

Bekijk hier de motivaties.