Year-End Lists

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

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The Hounding - Xenobe Purvis

MJ Franklin Favorite Books of 2025

Dogs - C. Mallon

Sam Franzini: Our Culture The Best Books of 2025

An Archive of Love Volume II - Romaisa Baddar (curator)

Passerby Best Books of 2025

Angel Down - Daniel Kraus

Adam Morgan: Esquire The 35 Best Books of 2025

Palaver - Bryan Washington

Boston Globe The Best Books of 2025

Dead and Alive - Zadie Smith

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2025

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) - Rabih Alameddine

Shelf Awareness 2025 Best Books of the Year

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

Nora Biette-Timmons: Jezebel The Best New Novels of 2025

The Wilderness - Angela Flournoy

WBEZ The Best Reads of 2025

Nobody's Girl - Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Anna Bonet: The i Paper The 10 Best Books of 2025

Good Dirt - Charmaine Wilkerson

Christian Science Monitor The Top 25 Books for 2025

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

USA Today Best Books of 2025

Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon

AP 10 Notable Books of 2025

Meet Me at the Crossroads - Megan Giddings

Town & Country The 20 Best Books of 2025

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

People The 15 Best Books of 2025

Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy

Book Riot Best Books of 2025

Dead and Alive - Zadie Smith

Vanity Fair The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read

Sunstruck - William Rayfet Hunter

Dazed The Best Books of 2025

Murderland - Caroline Fraser

Los Angeles Times The 15 Best Books of 2025

The Antidote - Karen Russell

Maureen Corrigan: NPR 10 Favorite Books of 2025

Overshoot - Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

Verso Books The Year 2025 in Ten Books

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad

California Review of Books 10 Best Books of 2025

King of Kings - Scott Anderson

Atlantic The Best Books of 2025

A Marriage at Sea - Sophie Elmhirst

Laura Miller: Slate The 10 Best Books of 2025