Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.
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2025
All Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry

The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 Them

Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time

Best Novels of 2025 Electric Lit

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times

The Best Nonfiction of 2025 BookPage

The Best Fiction of 2025 BookPage

Best Nonfiction of 2025 Electric Lit

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post

Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025 Chicago Public Library

50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post

Best Fiction of 2025 Financial Times: Maria Crawford

The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Fiction 2025 National Book Award

Nonfiction 2025 National Book Award

Best Fiction of 2025 The Booker Prize

Best Fiction of 2025 Goldsmiths Prize

10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Prize

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Prize

Non-Fiction 2025 Women's Prize

Fiction 2025 Women's Prize

2025 Dublin Literary Award

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.