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Which Notable Book of 2025 Should You Read? Let Us Help You.
We’ve released our list of 100 Notable Books. (You can read it in full here!) Browsing a list of 100 books is exciting, but can be overwhelming. Want to find one to read right away? We can help! Here is a cheat sheet to the list, broken into categories. Clicking a book cover will take you to the full review.
Let’s ease into things. How about a book I can read in a day?
Give me a novel that takes me back in time
Actually, give me a nonfiction book that takes me back in time
I need a crowd-pleaser for my book club — the longer, the better
I’m in the mood to laugh!
I’d like a rich, immersive thriller
I want insight into current events
Are there books that will make me swoon?
How about some fantasy?
I’d like an absorbing memoir or biography
I love family sagas — real or imagined
I like to be scared
I’m hungry!
I want to read about the creative process
Take me somewhere far, far away
I could use a good, cathartic cry
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Can You Identify Lines From These Classic Science Fiction Novels?
Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that tests your recognition of memorable lines. This week’s installment highlights lines from notable 20th-century science fiction novels. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books if you want to experience the entire work in context.
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Do You Recognize These Past Winners of the National Book Award?
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. In honor of the National Book Awards presented by the National Book Association on Nov. 19, this week’s challenge celebrates winners from the past 20 years and asks you to identify a title by a short description of the work. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books if you’d like to do further reading.
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Video: ‘Flesh’ by David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize
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‘Flesh’ by David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize
David Szalay became the first British Hungarian to win the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel “Flesh.”
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“I think fiction can take risks. I think it’s one of the things that it can do. It can take aesthetic risks, formal risks, perhaps even moral risks, which many other forms, narrative forms, can’t quite do to the same extent.” “I think all six of the books in the short list really, you know, not — it’s not saying this is the headline theme, but there is that theme of reaching out, wanting a connection.”
By Shawn Paik
November 11, 2025
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