Best Selling Novels 2025. The best books out in 2025, including new romance books, memoirs, thrillers, crime titles, literary masterpieces, and more. From hilary mantel to richard osman and kazuo ishiguro, the best fiction of the century.so far.

2025 promises to be a year of stellar fiction, with novels from reliable sources and new talent alike. A version of this list appears in the february 2, 2025 issue of the new york times book review.