Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
DIY: 2025 Albums of the Year
New Yorker: Richard Brody: The Best Films of 2025
more...
2025 Books
Town & Country: The 20 Best Books of 2025
18 December 2025
Town & Country
:
The 20 Best Books of 2025
, although I only count 19
[see also
2023
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2010s
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Flashlight
Susan Choi
Theft
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Antidote
Karen Russell
Meet Me at the Crossroads
Megan Giddings
The Slip
Lucas Schaefer
A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
Playworld
Adam Ross
The Devils
Joe Abercrombie
King of Kings
The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson
The Gods of New York
Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990
Jonathan Mahler
Isola
Allegra Goodman
A Marriage at Sea
A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst
Changeover
A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis
Giri Nathan
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy
The Spinach King
The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
John Seabrook
The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
The Wayfinder
Adam Johnson
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V.E. Schwab
Memorial Days
A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks
