Book reviews, February 2025
59 books reviewed by the critics in February 2025, most-reviewed first.
Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico
5 of 6 critics positive · 9 reviews
A Voyage Around the Queen
Craig Brown
4 of 4 critics positive · 7 reviews
Mothers and Sons
Adam Haslett
4 of 4 critics positive · 6 reviews
Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte
3 of 4 critics positive · 6 reviews
Show Don’t Tell
Curtis Sittenfeld
5 of 6 critics positive · 6 reviews
The City Changes its Face
Eimear McBride
6 of 6 critics positive · 6 reviews
The South
Tash Aw
4 of 4 critics positive · 6 reviews
Waste Wars
Alexander Clapp
3 of 3 critics positive · 6 reviews
Nesting
Roisin O'Donnell
4 of 4 critics positive · 5 reviews
Perspectives
Laurent Binet
2 of 2 critics positive · 5 reviews
Source Code
Bill Gates
3 of 4 critics positive · 5 reviews
Those Passions: on art and politics
T. J. Clark
0 of 2 critics positive · 5 reviews
I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again
Caroline Darian
3 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
Love in Exile
Shon Faye
3 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
Queen James
Gareth Russell
3 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Boy from the Sea
Garrett Carr
4 of 4 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Boyhood of Cain
Michael Amherst
1 of 1 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Lamb
Lucy Rose
2 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
1 of 4 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Violet Hour
James Cahill
1 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
Under a Metal Sky
Philip Marsden
4 of 4 critics positive · 4 reviews
We Do Not Part
Han Kang
2 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
Base Notes
Adelle Stripe
1 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Beartooth
Callan Wink
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Looking at Women Looking at War
Victoria Amelina
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Book of George
Kate Greathead
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The World After Gaza
Pankaj Mishra
0 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Wages for Housework
Emily Callaci
1 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
A House for Miss Pauline
Diana McCaulay
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Chameleon
Robert Dessaix
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Elegy, Southwest
Madeleine Watts
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Joan Lindsay
Brenda Niall
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
Ash Sarkar
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Silent Catastrophes
W.G. Sebald
0 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Golden Throne
Christopher de Bellaigue
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Knowing
Madeleine Ryan
0 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Naming of the Birds
Paraic O'Donnell
2 reviews, verdicts not stated · 2 reviews
Ungovernable
Simon Hart
0 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
A Man of Few Words
Carlo Greppi
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Cross Purposes
Jonathan Rauch
1 review, verdicts not stated · 1 review
Dengue Boy
Michel Nieva
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Doctored
Charles Piller
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Don’t Make Me Laugh
Julia Raeside
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Empty Wigs
Jonathan Meades
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
I Want to Talk to You
Diana Evans
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Measures of Weather
J. R. CARPENTER
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Money to Burn
Asta Olivia Nordenhof
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Somebody Down There Likes Me
Robert Lukins
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Inherited Mind
James Longman
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Kings Head
Kelly Frost
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Koran and the Flesh
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Persians
Sanam Mahloudji
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
When It Rained for a Million Years
Paul Farley
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Your Life Is Manufactured
Tim Minshall
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review