Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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by Kimberly King Parsons

Lists

Best Fiction of 2019: Powell's Books
Fiction 2019: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2023 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Albums of 2025 Craig Jenkins · New York · Vulture
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Train Dreams Clint Bentley
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Resurrection Bi Gan
‘Til Madness Do Us Part Wang Bing
Certified Copy Abbas Kiarostami
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Li’l Quinquin Bruno Dumont
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade Of Monsters and Men
XXX Danny Brown
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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

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