Time has just posted their 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, which they describe as the “books that moved and delighted us, sparked conversations, and opened our minds.” It includes big books of the year like Audition by Katie Kitamura, as well as less well known titles, like Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.

While there is a lot of literary fiction on the list, there are also sci-fi books, like Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor; horror books, like The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones; pop culture nonfiction books, like Girl On Girl by Sophie Gilbert; and quirky novels, like Sky Daddy by Kate Folk.

You’ll also find some familiar buzzy and bestselling books here, like Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, Katabasis by R. F. Kuang, and King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby.