Year-End Lists

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

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Inkoo Kang: New Yorker: The Best TV Shows of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Frank Trentmann

Out of the Darkness
- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024: Washington Post

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
We the People Jill Lepore

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