This post is part of my year end "Attack of the Best Lists" coverage. To see every post in my "Attack of the Best Lists 2025" coverage [and more backlist best of the year options] you can click here. 

Next week as we lead into the American Thanksgiving holiday, I will be posting a few key best lists. And while I have been doing this for a few weeks now, I want to make it clear to all of my readers-- I will not get to every list. In fact, that is very far from a goal for me.

The lists I chose to include here on the blog are usually the broadest and most useful to you as a resource. I also prioritize the lists that I can use to make some other tangential point or comment about how to best serve your readers.

But, I also understand that it means I miss lists that might be essential to helping you to help one of your readers. 

I'm okay with that though because every year since 2008, Largehearted Boy has us all covered. Here is the direct link to his list of 2025's most interesting best lists including this introductory note:

From 2008-2022, I aggregated every online year-end book list I discovered into one post.
This year (like last year), I will collect essential and interesting year-end book lists in this post and update it daily. 

Please feel free to e-mail me with a magazine, newspaper, or other online list I have missed. 

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This is a best list archive you need to bookmark and return to as the lists keep rolling out. He is just getting started.

Also, please note that all of his backlist of best lists are available, by year, at the end of the post, meaning access to those books previously deemed "best" are one click away.

Remember, "best" does not have a shelf life. Sure the 2025 bests are shiny and new, and everyone is talking about them, but the lists from the last five years are still a treasure trove of sure bet suggestions for your readers. And chances are they are somewhere on your shelves, buried in the stacks, waiting for their best readers to find them. 

Give them a boost by using Largehearted Boy's archive to make a fund backlist best books display. You can play with the name. Suggestions-- Best Books Flashback; Best Books You Never Got Around to Reading; Forgotten Favorites; etc... you get the idea.

I have found that during this time of year, our library users really appreciate finding a book they might have missed from a year or two ago. These are hardcore readers. They will be aware of the best lists and in many cases, they have a plan to read the ones that are most interesting to them. But, they also know (as do we) that these 2025 best titles are going to have long holds lists. And while they wait, one of the best books from 2024 or 2023, or 2022 that they never got to, will fulfill their reading needs quite nicely.

(Remember, our job is to highlight the books that our readers would not find without out help.)

As a result, Largehearted Boy's list of the best lists becomes your go to resource for the best, best list action and your portal into the best lists of years gone by. 

And don't forget, when the attack of the best lists is over for 2025, Largehearted Boy's lists are still there, anytime, anywhere, ready and waiting to help you find the perfect suggestion for your readers.