Get ready to dive into the best books of 2025, including eye-opening fiction and nonfiction you cannot afford to miss.

“James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” By Alexandra Alter Joumana Khatib and Gregory Cowles Nineteen books were ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There are 49 books in front of me, stacked like colorful bricks in a wall. These are the 49 books I didn’t include in the Chicago Tribune’s 10 Best Books of ...

In a hard year—and when, recently, have we had one we’d consider easy?—books can be a lifeline and a balm, a place to retreat and regain our grounding. Among the many entertaining, delightful, ...