Best novels to read in 2025

If you're looking for a good book, here are our top picks for this year so far

Book covers of Dream Count, Perspectives and We Do Not Part
Halle Butler and Charlotte Mendelson are among the authors to recently release new novels
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I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There by Róisín Lanigan

This "absorbing and eerie debut novel" by the Belfast-born Róisín Lanigan is "a horror story about the London rental market", said Emily Lawford in The Times. It opens with Áine, an Irish twenty-something who works in social media, moving into a mould-ridden flat with her "well-meaning but judgemental boyfriend, Elliott". As the months pass, Áine – who "has a fascination with the occult that her English boyfriend and friends do not understand" – becomes convinced that the flat is haunted, a belief the rational-minded Elliott does not share. Full of "wry observations about the status markers of modern life", from burrata cheese to vegan meal kits, the novel is "hugely enjoyable".

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