Year-End Lists

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

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Lightning Flowers

My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

by Katherine E. Standefer

Lists

Nonfiction 2021: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

King of Kings Scott Anderson
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Motherland Julia Ioffe
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Zbig Edward Luce
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
Resurrection Bi Gan

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