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The Best Books of 2025: The Stories That Defined the Year We Lived Through

A tastemaker’s guide to the best books of 2025, spanning award winners, breakout bestsellers, genre-defining sci-fi and fantasy, romance, horror, YA, and standout graphic novels. In Kehl Bayern’s voice, this long-form feature connects the year’s most essential reads to culture, power, identity, and the stories we needed to survive the noise.

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Demagaga’s Top 16 Books for Fall 2015

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold I Know This Much Is True (P.S.) by Wally Lamb God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything The Bean Trees: A Novel by […]

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