Congratulations and apologies to a few revisions to the editor credits for our consensus best books of the year: David Ebershoff at Hogarth edited The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny along with the original editor Robin Desser. Jennifer Hershey at Ballantine edited Atmosphere. (The author moves to Atria in her new deal.) Jynne Dilling at Riverhead edited A Marriage At Sea.
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The Best Lists 2025
The votes are all in and we’re ready to celebrate the consensus very best books of 2025, based on a broad collection of lists. This has been an extraordinary year for authors and listmakers, with a wide variety of books receiving endorsements and no clear “books of the year.” Arundhati Roy’s memoir tops our count, by a single vote only, followed closely by novels from Katie Kitamura, Megha Majumdar and Kiran Desai, and Sophie Elmhirst in nonfiction. Despite the lack of a dominant title or titles, in some ways it was harder to qualify this year than last. In fiction, […]
PM’s Best of 2025
Among our staff, we read widely, so starting last year we decided to give ourselves a vote as we busily aggregate and compute The Best Lists of all the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Notably, three present and former members of Team Lunch published deservedly praised works that merit a place on any list this year: Erin Somers‘ novel THE TEN-YEAR AFFAIR, as well as important works of researched nonfiction, Sarah Weinman‘s WITHOUT CONSENT and Kristen Martin‘s THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW. Beyond that, just like the listmakers this year, there was almost no consensus among staff favorites this […]