Best Fiction – 2025

The hyperlinks take you to my reviews….

1. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
2. Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet –
   • My Brilliant Friend,
   • The Story of a New Name
   • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
   • The Story of the Lost Child
3. Kiran Desai’s ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny‘
4. Dickens’ ‘The Bleak House’
5. Alberto Moravia was the biggest literary discovery of the year for me. I devoured six of his works in December (and plan to read the remaining ones too)
   • Contempt
   • The Conformist
   • Boredom
   • Conjugal Love
   • The Woman of Rome
   • Agostino
6. David Szalay’s Flesh and All that Man Is
7. Divya Prakash Dubey’s popular Hindi novels were refreshing
8. And of course my ongoing Shakespeare Project where I read 14 plays in 2024
   • Macbeth
   • The Tempest
   • The Merchant of Venice
   • Twelfth Night
   • As You Like It
   • Much Ado About Nothing
   • King Lear
   • Hamlet
   • Julius Caesar
   • Antony and Cleopatra
   • Coriolanus
   • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
   • Othello
   • The Comedy of Errors

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