Best Sellers 2025 English Literature. This list of the best new and anticipated 2025 literary fiction books is based on early reviews and buzz, and of course what i’ve read. As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of the new york times book review.
Revisiting milton’s masterpiece, reade examines what the epic poem has meant to 12 unexpected readers from malcolm x to virginia woolf to thomas jefferson. The best books we read this week.