We found out the favourite 2025 books of 35 expert readers – and the Books & Ideas team shares our own picks, too.
- Senior Lecturer, Global and Language Studies, RMIT University
The Japanese author’s new novel features a walled town with no music or books, a speaking shadow, the ghost of a head librarian, and a teenage boy who remembers every book he has read.
A classic of the Heian period of Japanese literature, the sensual delight of The Pillow Book encourages writers to ‘follow their brush’.
A classic of modern Japanese literature, Black Rain has come to exemplify ‘atomic bomb literature’.
The Oscars 2023 was a less scandalous affair than last year, and was defined by huge wins by crowd-favourite films.
Siang Lu’s debut novel suggests whitewashing Asians for the screen is profitable. ‘People pay to see foreignness repackaged as stereotypes – and thus rendered virtually invisible.’
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