Amazon pronounces 2025’s “Greatest E book of the Yr”.
What’s your e-book of the yr? (Picture: Getty)
Immediately, Amazon pronounces Damaged Nation by Clare Leslie Corridor as its Greatest E book of the Yr within the UK for 2025. The rising British creator’s highly effective novel was printed in March this yr and has since been picked up for movie adaptation, shortly turning into a Sunday Occasions bestseller and attracting acclaim from Reese Witherspoon’s E book Membership. The e-book took the highest spot over different shortlisted titles corresponding to Intruder by Freida McFadden and nonfiction favourites, together with the bestselling The Let Them Idea by award-winning creator and podcaster, Mel Robbins.
Set amid the seemingly tranquil English countryside impressed by Corridor’s own residence, Damaged Nation follows Beth, whose life on the farm together with her light husband Frank is irrevocably fractured by the return of Gabriel Wolfe, her passionate but forbidden old flame. It is a gripping mix of romance and thriller that takes readers on a journey by way of love triangles, household tragedy, and courtroom drama, exploring themes of grief, infidelity, and the final word lengths folks go to for love.
Clare Leslie Corridor, creator of Damaged Nation commented; “It’s such a terrific honour to have Damaged Nation chosen as Amazon UK’s Greatest E book of the Yr. It has meant the world to me to see readers connecting with Beth, Frank and Gabriel’s story and I’m actually delighted.”
Damaged Nation by Clare Leslie Corridor is Amazon’s greatest e-book of 2025 (Picture: Barnes & Noble)
Jen Barrett, Amazon Books UK Editor commented; “Clare Leslie Corridor’s sweeping, unputdownable novel expertly fuses the heartache of a terrific love story with the tempo of a home thriller, making it a worthy winner of our Greatest E book of the Yr for 2025. There was such a breadth of expertise throughout this yr’s shortlists, however Damaged Nation utterly captivated us with its subtle, emotionally charged have a look at unattainable decisions and the lasting imprint left by a primary love. Corridor’s writing is lyrical and fantastically evocative, pulling readers deep into the Dorset panorama, which serves as a backdrop to simmering secrets and techniques and devastating betrayals. The narrative masterfully strikes between previous and current, constructing insufferable suspense as an previous love triangle, grief, and jealousy culminate in lethal penalties and a homicide trial. You’ll end up recommending it far and extensive.”
That is the third time Amazon has chosen a Greatest E book of the Yr within the UK, with Clare Leslie Corridor becoming a member of established writers R.F. Kuang and David Nicholls, who gained the title in 2023 and 2024 respectively. Every year, the shortlist is hand-selected by the Amazon Books UK workforce to have fun the titles they’ve cherished most. Alongside their professional editorial critiques, the workforce considers a spread of things throughout their decision-making, together with reader evaluations and Amazon Charts information.
Standout fiction titles included Florence Knapp’s acclaimed debut The Names and up to date Booker Prize winner Flesh by David Szalay. The vary was putting, from Frieda McFadden’s gripping psychological thriller The Intruder to Peter Burns’s debut youngsters’s novel Shadow Thieves, and the much-anticipated return of Suzanne Collins together with her YA bestseller, Dawn on the Reaping.
Readers additionally embraced nonfiction, from The Let Them Idea, Mel Robbins’s empowering information to self-acceptance that grew to become a cultural speaking level, to Robert Macfarlane’s meditative Is a River Alive? In the meantime, Tim Siadatan’s Padella was a celebration of easy, trustworthy cooking and a standout inside the culinary area. Lastly, Ruth Jones and James Corden gained the nation’s hearts as soon as once more with When Gavin Met Stacey and Every part in Between, a behind-the-scenes memoir of their iconic sitcom.
Clare Leslie Corridor together with her e-book of the yr (Picture: Getty)
On Damaged Nation, one reader over on Goodreads stated the e-book “a cinematic masterpiece ready to occur”. One other stated that “Clare Leslie Corridor could have written a critical contender for a lot of readers’ greatest e-book of the yr”.
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Amazon UK’s High Ten Greatest Books of the Yr
(throughout all classes, in no explicit order)
- Damaged Nation by Clare Leslie Corridor – John Murray Press *winner*
- The Names by Florence Knapp – Headline
- Flesh by David Szalay – Jonathan Cape (PRH)
- The Let Them Idea by Mel Robbins – Hay Home (PRH)
- Padella by Tim Siadatan – Bloomsbury Publishing
- The Intruder by Freida McFadden – Poisoned Pen Press
- Dawn on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins – Scholastic Ltd
- Shadow Thieves by Peter Burns – HarperCollins Publishers
- Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane – Hamish Hamilton (PRH)
- When Gavin Met Stacey and Every part in Between by & James Corden – Bantam (PRH).
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