Book reviews, March 2025
65 books reviewed by the critics in March 2025, most-reviewed first.
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Ian Leslie
8 of 9 critics positive · 11 reviews
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3 of 5 critics positive · 9 reviews
Theory & Practice
Michelle de Kretser
5 of 5 critics positive · 9 reviews
Twist
Colum McCann
5 of 8 critics positive · 8 reviews
The Antidote
Karen Russell
5 of 5 critics positive · 7 reviews
The CIA Book Club
Charlie English
4 of 4 critics positive · 7 reviews
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
3 of 3 critics positive · 7 reviews
Flesh
David Szalay
5 of 6 critics positive · 6 reviews
The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue
5 of 5 critics positive · 6 reviews
The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
Anne Sebba
4 of 4 critics positive · 6 reviews
Changing My Mind
Julian Barnes
1 of 5 critics positive · 5 reviews
How To End a Story: Collected Diaries
Helen Garner
3 of 4 critics positive · 5 reviews
I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There
Róisín Lanigan
4 of 5 critics positive · 5 reviews
Homeland
Richard Beck
1 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf
Rebecca Romney
2 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
Mood Machine
Liz Pelly
1 of 1 critics positive · 4 reviews
Stag Dance
Torrey Peters
3 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Age of Diagnosis
Suzanne O'Sullivan
2 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World
Tom Phillips
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
1 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Dark Like Under
Alice Chadwick
2 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Free
Amanda Knox
1 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Hunchback
Saou Ichikawa
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Murder the Truth
David Enrich
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
On the Clock
Claire Baglin
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Soft Core
Brittany Newell
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Cafe With No Name
Robert Seethaler
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Voyage Home
Pat Barker
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Who Is Government?
Michael Lewis
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
A Climate of Truth
Mike Berners-Lee
0 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
A Room Above a Shop
Anthony Shapland
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
A Town Without Time
Gay Talese
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Alive: An Alternative Anatomy
Gabriel Weston
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives
Lucy Mangan
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Carrion Crow
Heather Parry
1 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso
Sue Roe
0 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Is This Working?
Charlie Colenutt
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted
Ben Okri
0 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Maybe I’m Amazed
John Harris
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary McCarthy
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Our Beautiful Boys
Sameer Pandya
2 reviews, verdicts not stated · 2 reviews
Raw Content
Naomi Booth
0 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Scouse Republic
David Swift
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Stories of Ireland
Brian Friel
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Alienation Effect
Owen Hatherley
2 reviews, verdicts not stated · 2 reviews
The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman
Didier Eribon
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
The North Pole: The History of an Obsession
Erling Kagge
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Theory of Everything
Yumna Kassab
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea
Fara Dabhoiwala
0 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
You’re Embarrassing Yourself
Desiree Akhavan
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Drax of Drax Hall
Paul Lashmar
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
I Hope You’re Happy
Marni Appleton
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Maternity Service
Emma Barnett
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Once the Deed Is Done
Rachel Seiffert
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Revenge
Alex Isenstadt
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Signs of Damage
Diana Reid
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Clinking
Susie Greenhill
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Grapevine
Kate Kemp
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Leopard in My House
Mark Steel
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Mouthless Dead
Anthony Quinn
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Tiger’s Share
Keshava Guha
1 review, verdicts not stated · 1 review
There’s No Time Like the Present
Paul B. Rainey
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Time Together
Luke Horton
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
What Is Free Speech?
Fara Dabhoiwala
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review