Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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After much pointless dithering, I have constructed my top of the year list - fiction edition.
I'd love to hear about yours!

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Runners Up
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Fight Night by Miriam Toews
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Endling by Maria Reva
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
On the Calculation of Volume series by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

The Top However Many Fiction Books 2025
We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
The Dream Hotel by Leila Lalami
Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda
Gliff by Ali Smith
The Master by Colm Toibin
Pale Shadows by Domique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Starlight and Moonshine by Joseph O'Malley
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine