Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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- Best Poetry Books of 2023: Rishi Dastidar: Guardian

Trending Lists

Records of the Year 2011 Rise
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Gladiator II Ridley Scott
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Rakshak Bloodywood
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Yes! Nadav Lapid
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes

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