Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Electric Lit: Best Novels of 2025
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Lists

Favorite Books of 2022: Salon

The Best Books of 2022: BuzzFeed
Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
Best Novels of 2025 Electric Lit
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
The Pitt
Punken Maxo Kream
The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland
Heart the Lover Lily King
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Nope Jordan Peele
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Anti Rihanna
Starred Up David Mackenzie
Outside Satan Bruno Dumont
Tár Todd Field
Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy
XXX Danny Brown

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