Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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History of Violence

by Édouard Louis

Lists

2020: Dublin Literary Award
100 Recommended Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Idlewild Idlewild
Boom Town Sam Anderson
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Diamond Eyes Deftones
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Weapons Zach Cregger
Clean Slate

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