Top Books 2025 Hj. There you’ll find the titles filling out our overall top 20, plus picks in popular categories like biographies, literary fiction, history, mystery, romance, sci. From memoirs to heartfelt fiction, these are our favorite books of 2025.

To view the full list, visit the best books of 2025 so far. We asked around the newsroom to find favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2025.