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This heartbreaking learn has been named as the most effective books of 2025 up to now and it’s one readers have been in awe of. There’s nothing worse than studying a e-book that leaves you feeling disillusioned. This novel has been praised by its readers, with one calling it an “an utterly transportive story,” in a overview on Goodreads.

The novel follows the story of three characters residing alongside two rivers, all underneath the shadow of one of many biggest epic poems of all time. There Are Rivers within the Sky by Elif Shafak entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which manifests time and again throughout the centuries.

Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers within the Sky was chosen because the winner of the inaugural Good Housekeeping Good Books Spring Collection.

Shafak’s novel was chosen for its “immersive and powerful storytelling” and is joined within the assortment by seven different titles.

One reader on Goodreads mentioned: “Undoubtedly the best book I have read this year and probably one of the best in my lifetime, There are Rivers in the Sky encompasses everything I love about reading.

“It is historical fiction at its best, taking place in long gone eras (pre biblical Mesopotamia as well as Dickensonian England) that peaked my curiosity and intellect.

“The writing was so beautiful it was breathtaking at times. I learned about faraway places that haven’t been on my recent radar.

“There are four distinct stories and the main characters are so well drawn and interesting that each could have been the protagonist of an entire story.”

The novel gained the Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month award for April 2025 and it was additionally shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2025.

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She writes in each Turkish and English, and has revealed 19 books, 12 of that are novels.