Year-End Lists

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

Books
A Marriage at Sea - Sophie Elmhirst

New Yorker The Best Books of 2025

A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar

Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune The 10 Best Books of 2025

Helm - Sarah Hall

Martin Chilton: Independent Best Books of 2025

Audition - Katie Kitamura

Lit Hub 43 Favorite Books of 2025

Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton

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

The Sisters - Jonas Hassen Khemiri

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2025

Beings - Ilana Masad

Them The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025

Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico

New York Public Library Best Books for Adults 2025

Good Dirt - Charmaine Wilkerson

Time The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Audition - Katie Kitamura

Electric Lit Best Novels of 2025

Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025

Baldwin - Nicholas Boggs

BookPage The Best Nonfiction of 2025

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

BookPage The Best Fiction of 2025

The Dry Season - Melissa Febos

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2025

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You - Neko Case

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025

Is a River Alive? - Robert Macfarlane

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025

Endling - Maria Reva

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025

The Slip - Lucas Schaefer

Washington Post The 10 Best Books of 2025

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye - Claire-Louise Bennett

Maria Crawford: Financial Times Best Fiction of 2025

Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton

Economist The Best Books of 2025

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

National Book Award Fiction 2025

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

National Book Award Nonfiction 2025