Year-End Lists

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

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The American Daughters
- Best Novels of 2024: Electric Lit
We Cast a Shadow
- Fiction 2020: PEN/Faulkner Award

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Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
La chimera Alice Rohrwacher
Mickey 17 Bong Joon-ho
Fear of a Black Universe Stephon Alexander
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be Nichole Perkins
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Feu Nekfeu
Resurrection Bi Gan
Train Dreams Clint Bentley

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