Year-End Lists

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

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Katy Waldman: New Yorker: My Favorite Fiction of 2020
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2024
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Kwame Anthony Appiah

The Lies That Bind
- 100 Notable Books of 2018: Washington Post
- Best Books of 2018: Carlos Lozada: PBS

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Down Cemetery Road
Rakshak Bloodywood
The Giverny Document (Single Channel) Ja’Tovia Gary
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley David Waldstreicher
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne Jean-Marie Straub
Drumming Up Trouble Alvin Curran
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
La Pivellina Tizza Covi
Them
Titanic Rising Weyes Blood
Nightcrawler Dan Gilroy
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Deepa Anappara
Red Capriccio Blake Williams

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