Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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A Spell of Good Things

by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

Lists

2024 Award: Dylan Thomas Prize
2023 Award: The Booker Prize

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Top Tens 2025 Fighting in the War Room

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
The Sunshine Place
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Liars Sarah Manguso
Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Oracle Cate Marvin
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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