Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Soft & Cuddly
- Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2017: Dennis Cooper Nonfiction
I Hate the Internet
- 52 Favorite Books of 2016: Dennis Cooper Fiction

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Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
11 Best Books of 2015 Entertainment Weekly
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Guardian
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Favorite Poetry of 2017 Dennis Cooper
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

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Defiance Loubna Mrie
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Good Times! The Monkees
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
I Never Learn Lykke Li
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Horses Jake Skeets
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
Islah Kevin Gates
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Our Time Carlos Reygadas

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