Year-End Lists

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

Books
Audition - Katie Kitamura

Boston Globe The Best Books of 2025

Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins

Traci Thomas: WBUR Top Books of 2025

There Is No Place for Us - Brian Goldstone

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2025

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

Shelf Awareness 2025 Best Books of the Year

Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

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

What We Can Know - Ian McEwan

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

Changeover - Giri Nathan

Town & Country The 20 Best Books of 2025

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

People The 15 Best Books of 2025

Flashlight - Susan Choi

Book Riot Best Books of 2025

Your Name Here - Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff

Dennis Cooper Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2025

Flashlight - Susan Choi

Constance Grady: Vox The Best Books of 2025

King of Kings - Scott Anderson

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

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai

Harper’s Bazaar The 10 Best Books of 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