Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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by Bryan Washington

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Lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29
The 10 Best Books of 2020: Entertainment Weekly
Best Books of 2020: Fiction: BookPage
The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple

The Best Books of 2020: Vogue
The Best Books of 2020: Harper’s Bazaar
Favorite Novels of 2020: Electric Lit
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time
50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times
The 15 Best Books of 2020: Vanity Fair
Best Books of 2020: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Clean Slate
Idlewild Idlewild
Liars Sarah Manguso
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
The Sunshine Place
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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