“A layered confrontation with the deaths, grief, and guilt that have animated her work for nearly 30 years.”

Literary Hub’s Book Marks tallied the reviews and reports with “near-certitude” the best reviewed nonfiction of 2025. Miriam Toews’ “A Truce That Is Not Peace” tops the list. Also featured: Geraldine Brooks’ dual-narrative grief memoir, Sophie Elmhirst’s shipwreck story “A Marriage at Sea,” Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare’s rival Marlowe, and David Baron’s account of early 1900s Mars fever in America.