Year-End Lists

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

« 2025
Heart the Lover - Lily King

Lucy Feldman: Time The 10 Best Books of 2025

Natch - Darrell Kinsey

The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize

Lonely Crowds - Stephanie Wambugu

Dazed The Best Books of 2025

Bad Bad Girl - Gish Jen

Los Angeles Times The 15 Best Books of 2025

The Antidote - Karen Russell

Maureen Corrigan: NPR 10 Favorite Books of 2025

What We Can Know - Ian McEwan

Justine Jordan: Guardian The Best Fiction 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

Sky Daddy - Kate Folk

The Skinny Favourite Books of 2025

We Do Not Part - Han Kang

Atlantic The Best Books of 2025

Moderation - Elaine Castillo

Laura Miller: Slate The 10 Best Books of 2025

Audition - Katie Kitamura

New Yorker The Best Books of 2025

Murderland - Caroline Fraser

Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune The 10 Best Books of 2025

Helm - Sarah Hall

Martin Chilton: Independent Best Books of 2025

Ultramarine - Mariette Navarro

Lit Hub 43 Favorite Books of 2025

King of Kings - Scott Anderson

Wall Street Journal The 10 Best Books of 2025

Lonely Crowds - Stephanie Wambugu

Jasmine Vojdani: New York The Best Books of 2025

Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon

Emma Alpern: New York The Best Books of 2025

Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2025

Uncanny Valley Girls - Zefyr Lisowski

Them The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025

The Director - Daniel Kehlmann

New York Public Library Best Books for Adults 2025

Red Water - Jurica Pavicic

Sunday Times Books of the Year 2025

Flesh - David Szalay

Observer The Observer's Books of the Year 2025

Lonely Crowds - Stephanie Wambugu

Time The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025