Books of the year 2025

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Books of the Year 2025

TLS contributors choose their favourites

David Abulafia

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The TLS Magazine

14 November, 2025

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Country Life

The best books of the year

COUNTRY LIFE reviewers reveal the works that impressed and absorbed them in 2025

BBC History Magazine

2025 books of the year

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Prima - UK

My books of 2025

The past 12 months have seen some fabulous releases. Prima ’s books editor Nina Pottell looks back at her favourites and the ones you may have missed…

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The Big Issue

Rowdy forest animals, cosmic questions and wig-loving goths – the kids’ books of 2025 have got it all

It’s another classic from the much-loved Belfast writer/illustrator Jeffers, known for Lost and Found and The Way Back Home. This one is about a little girl, Bridget, who has a birthday. She would lik