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
God Is In The TV: Albums of the Year 2025
New Yorker: Richard Brody: The Best Films of 2025
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2025 Books
WBEZ: The Best Reads of 2025
19 December 2025
WBEZ
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The Best Reads of 2025
Fiction
Near Flesh
Stories
Katherine Dunn
The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
Wanting
Claire Jia
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
Loved One
Aisha Muharrar
Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor
Fundamentally
Nussaibah Younis
Non-fiction
This American Woman
A One-In-A-Billion Memoir
Zarna Garg
Everything Is Tuberculosis
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
Night People
How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City
Mark Ronson
A Beautiful Shame
One Team's Fight for Survival in a New Era of College Sports
Ryan Swanson
Graphic
Preparing to Bite
Keiler Roberts
