Year-end Lists 2025: Books

Happy Hanukkah! Here are book recommendations to last you (at least!) eight days and nights.

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— NPR (@npr.org) December 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM

Slate's 10 Best Books of 2025. 

Publisher's Weekly's Best 20 Books of 2025. Ten for adults and ten for kids. 
 
The Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books 2025. 

The New York Public Library's Best Books of 2025.  

Book Riot's Best Books of 2025. 

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025. 

Kirkus' Best Fiction Books of the Year. 

Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2025. 

Electric Lit’s Best Nonfiction of 2025. 

Gosh! Names their 2025 Best Comic Books for Adults. 

The A.V. Club's best comics of 2025. 

Gosh! Names their 2025 Best Comic Books for Kids & Young Adults. 

10 Great Children’s Books You Might Have Missed in 2025. 

The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy novels of 2025.

 

 The Ten Best History Books of 2025. 

The Ten Best Science Books of 2025. 

The Ten Best Photography Books of 2025. 

The Best Books of 2025: Crime Fiction, Mysteries, and Thrillers. 

Five of the best sports books of 2025. 

The Ten Best Books About Food of 2025. 

The 26 Best Cookbooks of the year. 

The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025. 

 

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025. 

 

See all the previous year-end lists here.