Two Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2025
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times
"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now.... Please read this. I promise you won’t regret it." —Tommy Orange, bestselling author of Wandering Stars and There There
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When the Cranes Fly South
Lisa Ridzén, Alice Menzies
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man’s attempts to mend his relationship with his son before it’s too late: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood, dogs, and atonement that is already an international sensation.
"One of those ‘you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love’ books.” —Fredrik Backman, bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, in The New Yorker
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