A Whole Bunch of Best Books of 2025 Lists

Grab your coffee, settle into Sunday, and let the lists come to you. Here’s a holiday buffet of Best Books round-ups.

• The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025
• The Washington Post‘s 10 Best Books of 2025 (love to see Ruth by Kate Riley right up top!)
• NPR‘s Books We Love (384 titles!)
• The staff of The New Yorker keeps a running list of the best books they’ve read this year
• Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books 2025
• PEN America picks 15 books from Best Of lists
• Barnes & Noble names best books of the year and books of the year, which are, indeed, different things
• Amazon editors’ best books of 2025
• Bookshop breaks out the best fiction and nonfiction
• Libro.fm’s Top 10 Audiobooks of 2025
• Libby picks the best books of the year
• Audible names an Audiobook of the Year and a Top 20
• The New York Public Library does a hat trick with the best books for adults, teens, and kids
• And of course, Book Riot’s best books of 2025