Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Mother Stone

by Caleb Landry Jones

Lists

Our Top 100 Albums of 2020: Les Inrocks

Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Best Books of 2019 Washington Post
10 Best Books of 2015 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Mitchells vs. the Machines Mike Rianda
Mudbound Dee Rees
The Revenant Alejandro González Iñárritu
American Symphony Matthew Heineman
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Sinners Ryan Coogler
X Ti West
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Weapons Zach Cregger

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