Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
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- 2022 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard
As The Crow Flies
1. Top 50 Albums of 2011: The Wire

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Southernmost Leo Boix
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Ad Astra James Gray
I, Daniel Blake Ken Loach
Getting Killed Geese
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Saint Omer Alice Diop
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
XXX Danny Brown

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