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    2025 in Culture
    The best books of 2025

    New novels from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ian McEwan, plus the return of Slow Horses and Margaret Atwood looks back … Guardian critics pick the must-read titles of 2025
  • Madeleine Wickham, AKA Sophie Kinsella.

    News
    Confessions of a Shopaholic novelist Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55

  • Naomi Alderman.

    Book of the day
    Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today by Naomi Alderman review – how to navigate the information crisis

    Sophie McBain
  • Anika Jade Levy.

    Fiction
    Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy review – fear and loathing in New York

    Gabrielle Schwarz
  • Mari Lwyd, an ancient welsh Christmas custom.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg audiobook review – haunting Christmas tales

    Fiona Sturges
  • picture of people on a grey background.

    Book of the day
    On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle review – how to make a timeloop endlessly interesting

    Clare Clark
  • Composite image for Best Paperbacks November and December 2025

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Emmanuel Carrère, Mary Trump and more

What to read

  1. Composite image for Best Paperbacks November and December 2025

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Emmanuel Carrère, Mary Trump and more

  2. DS The Guardian books cover web

    2025 in Culture
    The best books of 2025

  3. Covers of My Battle of Hastings, The Best of Everything and Leavetaking

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: Geoff Dyer, Andrew Michael Hurley, Marcia Hutchinson and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in November

Non-fiction reviews

  • Luigi Mangione after his arrest in 2024

    Luigi Mangione
    Luigi: The Making and the Meaning by John H Richardson review – sympathy for a devil?

  • Idi Amin.

    History books
    Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin?

    Pratinav Anil
  • Molecular biologist Francis Crick

    Biography books
    Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science

    Sophie McBain
  • Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein (1527).

    Biography books
    Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist

    Kathryn Hughes

Fiction & poetry reviews

  1. Hamnoy fishing village on Lofoten Islands at dawn. Norway with red rorbu houses in winter. A fishing boats at dawn in the fjord. Red boat in the sunlight. Reine district

    Translated fiction roundup
    The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

    John Self
  2. Dartmoor, a destination in Bog People.

    Fiction
    Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting

    Catriona Ward
  3. Women prepare food in a makeshift home in Vienna after the end of the second world war.

    Fiction
    The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly review – horror, humanity and Dr Asperger

    Natasha Walter
  4. Author John Tottenham.

    Fiction
    Service by John Tottenham review – comic confessions of a grumpy bookseller

    Sam Leith

Children's and YA books

  1. picture of a mouse in bed

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  2. The Ocean at Night by Isabelle Simler

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  3. Bear’s Nap by Emily Gravett

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  4. illustration of

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams

Interviews

  1. Mircea Cărtărescu.

    Interview
    ‘I took literary revenge against the people who stole my youth’: Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu

  2. Margaret Atwood photographed at Victoria College, Toronto University.

    Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

  3. Karl Ove Knausgård for Guardian Saturday Books

    Interview
    Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition

Regulars

  • Tessa Hadley photographed at her home in Cardiff, Wales

    The books of my life
    Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’

  • illustration of person lazing around in a brain, weighing up the decision to do something

    Big idea
    Does ‘laziness’ start in the brain?

  • Mari Lwyd, an ancient welsh Christmas custom.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg audiobook review – haunting Christmas tales

  • Anne Finch.

    Poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Apology by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

You may have missed

  1. Cover of James Joyce's case file.

    Feature
    From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

  2. Anton Chekhov In A GardenRussian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov standing in a garden (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

    Feature
    ‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side

    Viv Groskop
  3. Salman Rushdie

    Ranked
    Salman Rushdie’s 10 best books – ranked!

    John Self

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