The Best Books of 2025 (So Far)

The Best Books of 2025 (So Far)

Fiction | Nonfiction We’re more than a third of the way through 2025 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then there are the following. We suspect that some (though certainly not all) …

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How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss

How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss

To walk into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s stately brick home outside Baltimore is to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that small children live there. It’s not that the kitchen floor is a Lego minefield or that the double staircase is lined with low-hanging fingerprints — quite the opposite. It’s …

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