Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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- Best Fiction of 2025: Maria Crawford: Financial Times
Romantic Comedy
- The 45 Best New Books of 2023: Harper’s Bazaar
- Best Books of 2023: USA Today
Rodham
1. The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple
You Think It, I'll Say It
1. The 13 Best Books of 2018: Harper’s Bazaar
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- 2016 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best TV Shows of 2023 Judy Berman · Time
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
The Sunshine Place
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Clean Slate
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Liars Sarah Manguso
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Idlewild Idlewild
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Sly Thom Zimny

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