My Top Ten Books of 2025 in Approximate Order

  1. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemmingway 

  2. “Enemies, A Love Story” By Isaac Bashevis Singer

  3. “Neuromancer” by William Gibson

  4. “The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza,” by Mac Barnett

  5. “Growth of the Soil” by Knut Hamsun

  6. “Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History,” Lea Ypi

  7. “Anxious People” by Fredrik Backman

  8. “Migrations” by Charlotte McConaghy

  9. “V13, Chronicle of a Trial” by Emmanuel Carrère

  10. “Varieties of Exile” by Mavis Gallant

My Top Nine Books of 2024 in Approximate Order

  1. “James” by Percival Everett

  2. “The Redbreast” by Jo Nesbø

  3. “The Talented by Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith

  4. “The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War” by Ben Macintyre

  5. “Burma Sahib” by Paul Theroux

  6. “Revolutionary Road” by Richard Yates

  7. “Open” by Andre Agassi

  8. “The Last Policeman” by Ben H. Winters

  9. “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood” by Alenxandra Fuller