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 3.78 avg rating — 81,740 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 3.82 avg rating — 4,545 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 4.19 avg rating — 792 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: Essays by Zadie Smith 4.17 avg rating — 2,121 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 4.03 avg rating — 12,864 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) 4.15 avg rating — 9,896 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 — 5,353 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 3.93 avg rating — 735 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 4.02 avg rating — 1,106 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 4.32 avg rating — 20,933 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 4.22 avg rating — 2,945 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 4.15 avg rating — 7,449 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) 3.26 avg rating — 59,505 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) 3.88 avg rating — 34,329 ratings Amanda rated it 4 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
15	Flesh by David Szalay 3.68 avg rating — 109,617 ratings Amanda rated it 4 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
16	Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems by Sasha Debevec-McKenney 4.18 avg rating — 366 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 3.68 avg rating — 45,381 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 3.65 avg rating — 52 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 3.65 avg rating — 59,188 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 3.98 avg rating — 15,738 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 3.15 avg rating — 1,078 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) 3.80 avg rating — 52,610 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) 3.46 avg rating — 12,787 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) 2.94 avg rating — 3,069 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