Mint (HT Media)
Mint Best Books of the Year 2025
Mint (HT Media)'s Mint Best Books of the Year 2025 names 25 books across 2 categories. 4 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
Best Books
- A Guardian and a Thiefsource (opens in a new tab)
- A Teashop in Kamalapura and Other Classic Kannada Storiessource (opens in a new tab)
- AI Snake Oilsource (opens in a new tab)
- Auditionsource (opens in a new tab)
- Called by the Hillssource (opens in a new tab)
- Every Room Has a Viewsource (opens in a new tab)
- Giantssource (opens in a new tab)
- Half Lightsource (opens in a new tab)
- Julie Chan is Deadsource (opens in a new tab)
- Marble Hall Murderssource (opens in a new tab)
- Mother Mary Comes to Mesource (opens in a new tab)
- Murder Most Foulsource (opens in a new tab)
- Railsongsource (opens in a new tab)
- Shilpa Gupta's Everyday Artsource (opens in a new tab)
- Sympathy Tower Tokyosource (opens in a new tab)
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunnysource (opens in a new tab)
- The Rose Fieldsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Tesla Filessource (opens in a new tab)
- The World After Gazasource (opens in a new tab)
- The World With Its Mouth Wide Opensource (opens in a new tab)
Books for Young Readers
- All the Missing Sockssource (opens in a new tab)
- Ganesh Haloi: Colours of Homesource (opens in a new tab)
- Song of the Asunamsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Poisoned Kingsource (opens in a new tab)
- This is Who I Amsource (opens in a new tab)
About the Mint Best Books of the Year
Mint Lounge's year-end editorial picks of the year's books. 2017: Lounge's 25 books from 2017 that stayed with us (Sana Goyal). 2020: Lounge picks, 10 books from India we loved in 2020 (Somak Ghoshal). 2025: Team Lounge's favourite reads of 2025, 20 books, plus the same page's sidebar of 5 books for young readers we loved (listed under Books for Young Readers). No list found for 2006-2016, 2018 or 2022. Left out: 2019's The books of 2019 you should not miss, a business-books column by Vivek Kaul in Lounge's Business of Life section, not Lounge's main books list; 2023's year-end essay by Somak Ghoshal, which names books in prose sections, so any list drawn from it would be our selection, not Mint's; 2021's Our year in reading (staff reading notes, mostly on older books); 2024's The year in books: hits and misses of 2024 (an essay on Indian publishing, not a list); and a 2016 Opinion column on four books. livemint.com blocks AI crawlers, so every page was read through Wayback Machine copies of the livemint.com and lifestyle.livemint.com URLs. Author and translator names follow the page spelling. Picture-book illustrators are listed as co-authors. No list is ranked.
Organization: Mint (HT Media). Official site (opens in a new tab)