Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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Iceboy Violet

The Vanity Project
1. The Top 50 Albums of 2022: Crack Magazine
2. Albums of the Year 2022: Quietus
Drown to Float
- The Best Music of 2021: Steve Erickson: GCN

Trending Lists

Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
Paddington 2 Paul King
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
The Assassin Hou Hsiao-Hsien
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Fancy That PinkPantheress
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion
American Eden Victoria Johnson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
American Legacies Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band
King of Kings Scott Anderson

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