Year-End Lists

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

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Kristen Arnett

Stop Me If You've Heard This One
- Best Novels of 2025: Electric Lit
With Teeth
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021: Washington Post
Mostly Dead Things

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Splitsville Michael Angelo Covino
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Thresholder Ian William Craig
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Vida
I'm Still Here Walter Salles

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