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Tell us: What was the best book of 2025?

Listicles abound and best-of lists pop up like daisies this time of year. What was your favorite book?

Independent bookseller The Book Rack in Arlington, photographed on November 12, 2025. (Lane Turner/Globe Staff)

By Annie Jonas

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There’s a certain wistfulness to the year’s end: a pang that comes with the closing of a chapter, mixed with a giddy hope for the next one.

For book lovers, the end of the year is when we catalog what we’ve read and celebrate the feat of our efforts – as we rightfully should (our ever-shortening attention spans amid our ever-uncertain world can make reading a precarious, precious thing).

Listicles abound and best-of lists pop up like daisies this time of year. But what makes a book the best? It’s all in the eyes of the beholder.

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On average, Americans read roughly 14 books over the course of 12 months, while the typical (median) American read five books, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center study. No matter how much you read this year, we want to hear from you.

From fiction to non-fiction, sci-fi to romance, short reads to doorstoppers, we want to know what book you loved the most in 2025.

Tell us by filling out the form or e-mailing us at [email protected], and your response may appear in a future Boston.com article.

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Annie Jonas

Annie Jonas is a Community writer at Boston.com. She was previously a local editor at Patch and a freelancer at the Financial Times.

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