Best Sellers 2025 Fiction. As we approach the halfway point of 2025, it is a great time to reflect on the books that stood out the most (even among the. We asked around the newsroom to find favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2025.
After digging—in some cases, literally—through as many books as the elle office could squeeze in, we decided to split our annual “best of 2025” list into five categories: We asked around the newsroom to find favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2025.