Year-End Lists

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

Angel Down - Daniel Kraus

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025

Black in Blues - Imani Perry

BookPage The Best Nonfiction of 2025

A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar

BookPage The Best Fiction of 2025

Uncanny Valley Girls - Zefyr Lisowski

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2025

A Truce That Is Not Peace - Miriam Toews

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025

Helen of Troy, 1993 - Maria Zoccola

Electric Lit Best Poetry Collections of 2025

Severance

TV Guide The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025

Black in Blues - Imani Perry

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025

The Antidote - Karen Russell

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025

The Wilderness - Angela Flournoy

Washington Post The 10 Best Books of 2025

The Empire of Forgetting - John Burnside

Financial Times: Maria Crawford Best Poetry of 2025

Flesh - David Szalay

Financial Times: Maria Crawford Best Fiction of 2025

Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy

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

The Intentions of Thunder - Patricia Smith

National Book Award Poetry 2025

Lonely People with Power - Deafheaven

Decibel Top 40 Albums of 2025

More - Pulp

Mojo The 75 Best Albums of 2025

Hamnet - Chloé Zhao

Economist The Best Films of 2025

Viagr Aboys - Viagra Boys

Rough Trade Albums of the Year 2025

More - Pulp

Uncut 80 Best Albums of 2025

Flesh - David Szalay

The Booker Prize 2025 Award

We Live Here Now - C.D. Rose

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2025

The Mastermind - Kelly Reichardt

Jordan Cronk Top Ten Films of 2025