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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A Nobel Laureate Who Mines Her Country’s Nightmares, and Her Own

A Nobel Laureate Who Mines Her Country’s Nightmares, and Her Own

In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three minutes, for weeks on end, a caregiver carefully, dispassionately sinks needles deep into the sutures on each finger, …

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