Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2025
IndieWire Poll: Best Movies of 2025
Rolling Stone: 10 Best Podcasts of 2025
more...
2025 Books
Vanity Fair: The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read
15 December 2025
Vanity Fair
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The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read
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Bad Company
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Megan Greenwell
Flashlight
Susan Choi
Ruth
Kate Riley
North Sun
Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Ethan Rutherford
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
John Darnielle
Now Jazz Now
100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings (1960-80)
Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore
Great Black Hope
Rob Franklin
Dead and Alive
Zadie Smith
All Consuming
Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Ruby Tandoh
Toni at Random
The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
Dana A. Williams
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
Forest Euphoria
The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
Paper Girl
A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Beth Macy
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
King of Kings
The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson
Stag Dance
Torrey Peters
Joyride
A Memoir
Susan Orlean
