Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
RogerEbert.com: The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
Slant: The 25 Best Films of 2025
more...
2025 Books
Christian Science Monitor: The Top 25 Books for 2025
18 December 2025
Christian Science Monitor
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The Top 25 Books for 2025
[see also
2018
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2017
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Fiction
Amity
Nathan Harris
Isola
Allegra Goodman
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong
Maya & Natasha
Elyse Durham
The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
Allegro
Ariel Dorfman
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman
The Wayfinder
Adam Johnson
Going Home
Tom Lamont
A Case of Mice and Murder
Sally Smith
Nonfiction
We the People
A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore
Buckley
The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Sam Tanenhaus
The Place of Tides
James Rebanks
I Am Nobody's Slave
How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free
Lee Hawkins
The Containment
Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
Michelle Adams
Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
Aflame
Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer
Storyteller
The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Leo Damrosch
The Great Chinese Art Heist
Imperialism, Organized Crime, and the Hidden Story of China's Stolen Artistic Treasures
Ralph Pezzullo
Tonight in Jungleland
The Making of Born to Run
Peter Ames Carlin
Dark Renaissance
The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Stephen Greenblatt
Hostage
Eli Sharabi
