Amanda's votes on the list New Yorker Essential Reads 2025

Listopia > Amanda's votes on the list New Yorker Essential Reads 2025 (24 Books)

1	A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst 3.82 avg rating — 54,683 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews 3.84 avg rating — 3,618 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus 4.21 avg rating — 643 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud by Zadie Smith 4.17 avg rating — 1,451 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces by Seth Harp 4.07 avg rating — 9,465 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 6,837 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison 4.19 avg rating — 4,834 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell 3.96 avg rating — 630 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America by Michael Luo 4.07 avg rating — 833 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li 4.35 avg rating — 10,807 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore 4.24 avg rating — 1,734 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara 4.16 avg rating — 4,788 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Audition by Katie Kitamura (Goodreads Author) 3.28 avg rating — 42,650 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Flashlight by Susan Choi (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 21,042 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Flesh by David Szalay 3.72 avg rating — 69,720 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems by Sasha Debevec-McKenney 4.28 avg rating — 219 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 3.74 avg rating — 29,509 ratings Amanda rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Ocean of Clouds: Poems by Garrett Hongo 3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico 3.69 avg rating — 43,782 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri 4.02 avg rating — 11,210 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Trip: A Novel by Amie Barrodale 3.23 avg rating — 826 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 35,652 ratings Amanda rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy (Goodreads Author) 3.49 avg rating — 9,534 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood (Goodreads Author) 2.99 avg rating — 2,563 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars