Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Dazed: The Best Novels of 2023

19 January 2024

Brainwyrms - Alison Rumfitt

Dazed: The Best Novels of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024]

Brainwyrms

Alison Rumfitt
Penance

Eliza Clark
The Fraud

Zadie Smith
Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton
The Bee Sting

Paul Murray
Yellowface

R.F. Kuang
The List

Yomi Adegoke
The Guest

Emma Cline
Ordinary Human Failings

Megan Nolan

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Ten Best Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Summertime ’06 Vince Staples
Returning to Reims (Fragments) Jean-Gabriel Périot
From Ground Zero various directors
L. Cohen James Benning
Thelma Josh Margolin
All Our Knives Are Always Sharp Tony Njoku
Whores’ Glory Michael Glawogger
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan
XXX Danny Brown
Trap M. Night Shyamalan
Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver
Honeydew Devereux Milburn
Robot Dreams Pablo Berger

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