Year-End Lists

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

Books
The Harder I Fight the More I Love You - Neko Case

California Review of Books 10 Best Books of 2025

There Is No Place for Us - Brian Goldstone

Atlantic The Best Books of 2025

Moderation - Elaine Castillo

Laura Miller: Slate The 10 Best Books of 2025

Dead and Alive - Zadie Smith

New Yorker The Best Books of 2025

A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar

Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune The 10 Best Books of 2025

Helm - Sarah Hall

Martin Chilton: Independent Best Books of 2025

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai

Lit Hub 43 Favorite Books of 2025

Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton

Wall Street Journal The 10 Best Books of 2025

Lonely Crowds - Stephanie Wambugu

Jasmine Vojdani: New York The Best Books of 2025

Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon

Emma Alpern: New York The Best Books of 2025

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2025

Trauma Plot - Jamie Hood

Them The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

New York Public Library Best Books for Adults 2025

Pan - Michael Clune

Time The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Flashlight - Susan Choi

Electric Lit Best Novels of 2025

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025

Motherland - Julia Ioffe

BookPage The Best Nonfiction of 2025

The Antidote - Karen Russell

BookPage The Best Fiction of 2025

Uncanny Valley Girls - Zefyr Lisowski

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2025

Apple in China - Patrick McGee

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025

Is a River Alive? - Robert Macfarlane

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025

The Antidote - Karen Russell

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025

The Slip - Lucas Schaefer

Washington Post The 10 Best Books of 2025

Flashlight - Susan Choi

Maria Crawford: Financial Times Best Fiction of 2025