Congratulations to Hunter College English Professors Megha Majumdar and Michael Thomas on their inclusion in The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2025.
Megha Majumdar's second novel, A Guardian and a Thief, is featured on the Fiction portion of the list. The Times writes of the novel, "Majumdar creates a deeply compassionate portrait of desperation, fear and the combined selflessness and selfishness of parenthood." The book was also a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction and was selected for Oprah's Book Club. Majumdar graduated from the Hunter MFA Creative Writing Program in 2011 and now teaches in it.
In the Nonfiction portion of the list, Michael Thomas's memoir, The Broken King, appears. Critic Thomas Chatterton Williams, who reviewed the memoir for the Times, wrote, "Thomas has rendered beautifully an excruciating existence from which it is impossible to turn away." The book was also selected as one of Publishers Weekly’s 25 Best Non-Fiction Books of 2025 and excerpted and adapted as the New Yorker’s weekend essay. Thomas teaches undergraduate creative writing in the Hunter English Department.
