Best Fiction of 2025

by Powell's
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20 books
Each year, our booksellers look forward to the challenge of selecting their favorite books.
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Katabasis

A Novel
R F Kuang, 2025

Audition

Katie Kitamura, 2025

Automatic Noodle

Annalee Newitz, 2025

Tilt

A Novel
Emma Pattee, 2025

Stag Dance

A Novel & Stories
Torrey Peters, 2025

The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong, 2025

The Antidote

A Novel
Karen Russell, 2025

Spent

A Comic Novel
Alison Bechdel, 2025

The Starving Saints

A Novel
Caitlin Starling, 2025

The Unworthy

A Novel
Agustina Bazterrica, 2025

We Love You, Bunny

Mona Awad, 2025

Five Ways to Forgiveness

A Library of America eBook Classic
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2017

The Bewitching

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2025

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

V. E. Schwab, 2025

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

A Novel
Bob the Drag Queen, 2025

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Grady Hendrix, 2026

The River Has Roots

Amal El-Mohtar, 2025

This Inevitable Ruin

Matt Dinniman, 2025

Of Monsters and Mainframes

Barbara Truelove, 2025

Every Step She Takes

A Novel
Alison Cochrun, 2025