Book reviews, January 2025
57 books reviewed by the critics in January 2025, most-reviewed first.
Good Girl
Aria Aber
4 of 5 critics positive · 7 reviews
Lazarus Man
Richard Price
3 of 5 critics positive · 7 reviews
Open Socrates
Agnes Callard
2 of 2 critics positive · 6 reviews
Confessions
Catherine Airey
4 of 5 critics positive · 5 reviews
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
2 of 2 critics positive · 5 reviews
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
4 of 4 critics positive · 5 reviews
The Odd Woman and the City
Vivian Gornick
2 of 2 critics positive · 5 reviews
Friends in Youth
Minoo Dinshaw
1 of 1 critics positive · 4 reviews
Hope: The Autobiography
Pope Francis
0 of 4 critics positive · 4 reviews
House of Huawei
Eva Dou
1 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Grammar of Angels
Edward Wilson-Lee
2 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Hiromi Kawakami
1 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
Water
John Boyne
3 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
A Training School for Elephants
Sophy Roberts
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Another Man in the Street
Caryl Phillips
3 reviews, verdicts not stated · 3 reviews
Ask Me Again
Clare Sestanovich
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Disappoint Me
Nicola Dinan
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Playing Possum
Susana Monsó
3 reviews, verdicts not stated · 3 reviews
Sweat
Emma Healey
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Extinction of Experience
Christine Rosen
1 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
Edmund White
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Peepshow
Kate Summerscale
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Princess of 72nd Street
Elaine Kraf
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Secret Painter
Joe Tucker
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Shetland Way
Marianne Brown
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Bad Education
Matt Goodwin
0 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Dare I Say It
Naomi Watts
0 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Gobsmacked!
Ben Yagoda
2 reviews, verdicts not stated · 2 reviews
Islamesque
Diana Darke
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Memories of Distant Mountains
Orhan Pamuk
1 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World
Dan Hancox
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Oromay
Baalu Girma
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Quarterlife
Devika Rege
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Science of Racism
Keon West
1 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Shape of Things Unseen
Adam Zeman
2 reviews, verdicts not stated · 2 reviews
The Sound of Utopia
Michel Krielaars
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City
Kay Sohini
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
We All Come Home Alive
Anna Beecher
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
A Quiet Evening
Norman Lewis
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
A Second Act
Matt Morgan
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Alive in the Merciful Country
A.L. Kennedy
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
All the President’s Money
James Comer
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
American Genius, A Comedy
Lynne Tillman
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Dealing With the Dead
Alain Mabanckou
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Deviants
Santanu Bhattacharya
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Greatest of All Time
Alex Allison
1 review, verdicts not stated · 1 review
Live Forever?
John S. Tregoning
1 review, verdicts not stated · 1 review
Marilyn Monroe
Eve Arnold
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Music As Medicine
Daniel Levitin
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
My Tender Matador
Pedro Lemebel
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Prosecuting the Powerful
Steve Crawshaw
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line
Elizabeth Lovatt
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth
Adrian Duncan
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Memory Palace
Nate DiMeo
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Unfinished Business
Shankari Chandran
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Vatican Spies
Yvonnick Denoël
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
You Must Remember This
Sean Wilson
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review