Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Trending
Cahiers du Cinéma
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Top 10 Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey
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Best Films of 2025
Time
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The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
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Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom
Best Books of 2020: Fiction
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BookPage
The 10 Best Books of 2020
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Entertainment Weekly
Best Books of 2020
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Refinery29
The Best Books of 2020
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Real Simple
Fiction 2021
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Women's Prize
Fiction 2021
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PEN/Faulkner Award
Favorite Novels of 2020
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Electric Lit
The Best Books of the Year 2020
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Lindsay Baker: BBC: BBC Culture
Best Literary Fiction of 2020
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Library Journal
Top 20 Books of 2020
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Chicago Public Library
10 Best Books of 2020
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Washington Post
The 15 Best Books of 2020
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Vanity Fair
The 10 Best Books of 2020
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Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2020
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Harper’s Bazaar
Homegoing
10 Best Books of 2016
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Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air
The 20 Best Books of 2016
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Entertainment Weekly
The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s
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Paste
Top 20 Books of 2016
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Sarah Begley: Time
The 10 Best Books of 2016
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Jane Ciabattari: BBC: BBC Culture
The 13 Best Books of 2016
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Harper’s Bazaar
31 Best Fiction Books of 2017
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Guardian
2016 First Novel Prize
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The Center for Fiction
100 Recommended Books of 2016
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San Francisco Chronicle
2016 Best Books of the Year
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Shelf Awareness
The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s
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Lit Hub
