Year-End Lists

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

Books
Gliff - Ali Smith

The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe

There Is No Place for Us - Brian Goldstone

Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama

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

2025 Best Books of the Year Shelf Awareness

The Wilderness - Angela Flournoy

The Best Reads of 2025 WBEZ

Nobody's Girl - Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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

Good Dirt - Charmaine Wilkerson

The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

Best Books of 2025 USA Today

Flesh - David Szalay

10 Notable Books of 2025 AP

King of Kings - Scott Anderson

The 20 Best Books of 2025 Town & Country

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

The 15 Best Books of 2025 People

The Dry Season - Melissa Febos

Best Books of 2025 Book Riot

Toni at Random - Dana A. Williams

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

Flesh - David Szalay

The 15 Best Books of 2025 Los Angeles Times

The Antidote - Karen Russell

10 Favorite Books of 2025 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Overshoot - Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

The Year 2025 in Ten Books Verso Books

The Perfect Tuba - Sam Quinones

10 Best Books of 2025 California Review of Books

King of Kings - Scott Anderson

The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic

A Marriage at Sea - Sophie Elmhirst

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Slate: Laura Miller

Is a River Alive? - Robert Macfarlane

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

A Marriage at Sea - Sophie Elmhirst

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

Helm - Sarah Hall

Best Books of 2025 Independent: Martin Chilton

43 Favorite Books of 2025 Lit Hub

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Lonely Crowds - Stephanie Wambugu

The Best Books of 2025 Vulture: Jasmine Vojdani