Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2026
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Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (editors)

Four Hundred Souls
- Nonfiction 2022: Carnegie Medal Finalist
- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2024 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
20 Best Films of 2016 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Poetry Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times
2026 Award Polaris Music Prize
10 Best Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
2026 Award The Mercury Prize

Trending Works

Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet
The Room Between Us Denise Saul
I You We Them Dan Gretton
This Vast Enterprise Craig Fehrman
Public Access Afterworld Jane Schoenbrun
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State Jill Lepore
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall
Red Rooms Pascal Plante
The Death of King Arthur Simon Armitage (translator)
Allison after NXIVM
In Her Nature Rachel Hewitt
Spotlight: Snitch City
Open The Gates Irreversible Entanglements
The Harbingers

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