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The Best Books of the Year Are Here!

Discover the best books of 2025 from Simon & Schuster—the stories readers, editors, and critics can’t stop talking about. From award winners to breakout debuts, these must-read fiction and nonfiction titles defined the year in books.

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Our National Book Award Winner!

The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith

A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry, a "masterful performer and poet of voices too little heard" (Poetry Foundation).

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