Year-End Lists

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

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Inkoo Kang: New Yorker: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Ann Leckie

The Raven Tower
- The 10 Best Books of 2019: Dan Kois: Slate
Ancillary Mercy
- 50 Best Books of 2015: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Trending Lists

2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
We the People Jill Lepore
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time

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