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9 Novels I Loved in 2025

Our annual Books on GIFt guide features books by Solvej Balle, Percival Everett and Colson Whitehead, as well as indie presses and bookstores where you…

Dec 14, 2025 • Books on GIF

'Butcher's Crossing' by John Williams

'And no more dreams; I take what I can get when I can get it, and worry about nothing else.'—Review #271

Dec 7, 2025 • Books on GIF

'Martyr!' by Kaveh Akbar

'An alphabet, like a life, is a finite set of shapes. With it, one can produce almost anything.'—Review #270

Nov 23, 2025 • Books on GIF

'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

'And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.'—Review…

Nov 9, 2025 • Books on GIF

Novels Gifted by Friends and Loved Ones

Reader's Choice: 'Western Lane' by Chetna Maroo, 'In Case of Emergency' by Courtney Moreno and 'The Old Man by the Sea' by Domenico Starnone

Nov 2, 2025 • Books on GIF

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'I liked lying more and more, I felt now that praying and telling lies provided the same consolation.'—Review #263

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'And having become sensitive to cold weather, I'd been searching for the warmth ever since.'—Review #262

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'Butcher's Crossing' by John Williams

'And no more dreams; I take what I can get when I can get it, and worry about nothing else.'—Review #271

Dec 7, 2025 • Books on GIF

'Texas: The Great Theft' by Carmen Boullosa

'You'd have to be shameless to do that. Their hands are full but they keep taking more.'—Review #254

Apr 13, 2025

'True Grit' by Charles Portis

'No, I will see the thing done myself.'—Review #221

Nov 19, 2023

'Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West' by Cormac McCarthy

'What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.'—Review #191

Aug 14, 2022 • Books on GIF

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