
It’s that time of the year when newspapers and magazines publish their ‘Best of 2025’ lists. Lists usually begin appearing early November and keep going until the end of the year – I will keep adding as they are published.
The Best of 2025 According to #ALLTHELISTS will be coming very, very soon – stay tuned! (See previous lists here).
Publishers Weekly – Best Books 2025
New York Times – 100 Notable Books of 2025 and the ten best
Vulture – Best Books of 2025
Readings – The Best Books of 2025
Pen America – Best Books of 2025
Debutiful – The Best Debut Books of 2025
The Spinoff – An A to Z of The Spinoff’s best books of 2025
Washington Post – 10 Best Books of 2025 (pay-walled)
The New York Public Library – Best Adult Books of 2025
TIME – 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews – Best Fiction Books of 2025
Book Riot – Best Books of 2025
Lithub – 43 Favorite Books of 2025
Esquire – The 27 best Books of 2025
The Economist – Best Books of 2025 (pay-walled)
USA Today – Best Books of 2025, Ranked
Vanity Fair – The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read
Five Books – The Best Books of 2025
Town & Country – The 20 Best Books of 2025
Hapers Bazaar – The 10 Best Books of 2025
The Guardian – Best Books of 2025
Electric Lit – Best Novels of 2025
Los Angeles Times – The Best Books of 2025
Dazed – The Best Books of 2025
Oprah Daily – The Books That Got Us Through 2025
Marie Claire – The 25 Best Novels of 2025 That You Absolutely Need to Read
Barnes & Noble – The Best Fiction of 2025
ABC Australia – The Best Books of 2025 and ABC News Best Books of 2025
NPR – Books We Love 2025
Amazon – Best Books of 2025
Chicago Public Library – Best of the Best Books of 2025
The Skinny UK – Best Books of 2025
The Atlantic – The Best Books of 2025
The Globe 100 – The Best Books of 2025 (paywalled)
The Independent Book Review – The Best Books We Read in 2025
Financial Times Best Books of 2025 (fiction) (pay-walled)
Library Journal – Best Books of 2025
The Independent – Best Fiction Books of 2025 (paywalled)
Red – Best Books of 2025
Australian Book Review – Books of the Year 2025
The Telegraph – The Greatest Books of 2025 (paywalled)
Waterstones – Best of 2025
The New Yorker – The Best Books of 2025 (pay-walled but you can see the list here)
Australian Financial Review – The Best Books of 2025 (pay-walled)
The Post (NZ) – The 44 Best Books of 2025
People – Picks the Top 15 Books of 2025
The Times (UK) – The Best Books of 2025 (pay-walled)
Real Simple – The 38 Best Books of 2025 (So Far)
California Review of Books – 10 Best Books of 2025
Slate – The 10 Best Books of 2025
Indigo – Best Books of 2025
British Vogue – The Best Books of 2025
She Reads – Best Books of 2025
…and there will be more to come.
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Thanks, as ever, Kate.
Fantastic! Now to spend the rest of the day reading through them!
I have the advantage of tagging the books I’m interested in as I compile the Top Books list – lots tagged this year, which will keep me in reading samples for many months 🙂
*Deep breath* I suppose I’d better crack on and do mine. I feel fairly confident that my #DoorstoppersInDecember choice of Christina Stead’s 832 page House of All Nations isn’t going to be on my list…
Probably safe to start compiling the list if you’ve got 800+ pages ahead of you!
*grumpy frown* Haha…
Look at all those lists! Wow! I just looked at the NY Times 100. That’s enough for me.
Done: https://anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/18/2025-anzlitlovers-australian-and-new-zealand-best-books-of-the-year/