About SHORTLIST

SHORTLIST aggregates the year's most credible best-books lists and adds a transparent Consensus Score — Rotten Tomatoes for the world's most respected book lists.

Every year, the world's most trusted institutions publish their best-books lists. That signal is scattered across paywalls, PDFs and press releases. SHORTLIST gathers it into one beautifully designed, cross-referenced destination — and adds a transparent Consensus Score showing what the smartest institutions agree on.