STARRED REVIEW

Our Top 10 books of February 2025

Nobel laureate Han Kang returns with her finest work yet and National Book Award-winner Imani Perry investigates the role of blue of Black history and culture in our Top 10 books of the month.
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Book jacket image for Hot Date! by Rawaan Alkhatib

With an artful eye and bold style, Rawaan Alkhatib elevates the humble date in her brilliantly designed, deliciously concocted cookbook, Hot Date!

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Book jacket image for Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel

With a sharp sense of dark humor and a stunning voice, Neena Viel uses well-worn horror tropes in deliciously terrifying ways in her debut, Listen

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Book jacket image for Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett

Mothers and Sons is a touching story about the self-inflicted pain of long-buried memories, once again demonstrating Adam Haslett’s ability to produce graceful, emotionally affecting

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Book jacket image for Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

William Boyle has a pointillist’s eye for detail, and in Saint of the Narrows Street, you can smell the cigarette smoke and desperation wafting from

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Book jacket image for The Containment by Michelle Adams

Reading at times like a legal thriller, Michelle Adams’ The Containment sweeps readers into the effort to challenge Detroit’s separate and unequal school system.

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Book jacket image for The Queen's Spade by Sarah Raughley

The Queen’s Spade introduces readers to the incredible story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta and broadens it into a powerful tale that readers seeking historical fiction

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Book jacket image for To Walk the Sky by Patricia Morris Buckley

To Walk the Sky will find a receptive audience in nearly every age group and setting, from families of steelworkers and proud descendants of the

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Readers are enamored with the bookish, blunt Miss Wilde and her dashing fiancé, fellow academic and secret Faerie prince Wendell Barnaby. The pair’s latest adventure

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Han Kang’s novels reflect human nature across what she described—in an interview with BookPage about The Vegetarian—as “a spectrum that stretches from holiness to horror.”

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Imani Perry showed her ability to weave historical research with sharp, sparkling analysis in 2022’s National Book Award-winning South to America. In Black in Blues:

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