Year-End Lists

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

Poetry
Salvage - Hedgie Choi

The Best Poetry of 2025 New York Times: Elisa Gabbert

The Best Poetry Books of 2025 The Week

Groceries - Nora Claire Miller

Best Poetry Books of 2025 New York Public Library

Stay Dead - Natalie Shapero

The Must-Read Poetry Books of 2025 Time

Becoming Ghost - Cathy Linh Che

Best Poetry Collections of 2025 Electric Lit

The Empire of Forgetting - John Burnside

Best Poetry of 2025 Financial Times: Maria Crawford

The Intentions of Thunder - Patricia Smith

Poetry 2025 National Book Award

The New Economy - Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Best Poetry Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly

Bluff - Danez Smith

The Best Queer Poetry Releases of 2024 Autostraddle

Wrong Norma - Anne Carson

The Best Poetry Books of 2024 New York Times: Elisa Gabbert

Forest of Noise - Mosab Abu Toha

Best Poetry of 2024 New York Public Library

Forest of Noise - Mosab Abu Toha

Best Poetry Collections of 2024 Electric Lit

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The Best Poetry Books of 2024 Guardian: Rishi Dastidar

Bluff - Danez Smith

Best Poetry of 2024 Library Journal

Bluff - Danez Smith

Best Poetry of 2024 Financial Times: Maria Crawford

Something about Living - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Poetry 2024 National Book Award

A Year of Last Things - Michael Ondaatje

Best Poetry Books of 2024 Publishers Weekly

Grand Tour - Elisa Gonzalez

12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023 Book Riot: Connie Pan

Balladz - Sharon Olds

Best Poetry Books of 2023 Guardian: Rishi Dastidar

suddenly we - Evie Shockley

6 Favorite Poetry Collections of 2023 Boston Globe: Dasia Moore

Auction - Quan Barry

The Best Poetry of 2023 New York Times: Elisa Gabbert

Quiet - Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Best Poetry of 2023 New York Public Library

suddenly we - Evie Shockley

Best Poetry of 2023 Library Journal

School of Instructions - Ishion Hutchinson

Best Poetry of 2023 Financial Times: Maria Crawford