Year-End Lists

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

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Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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by Gayl Jones

Lists

The 50 Best Books of 2021: Esquire
Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
Best Fiction of 2021: Guardian
The Best Books of 2021: Patrick Rapa: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Severance
Enys Men Mark Jenkin
Empty Netters
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Gilded Age
Portrait of My Heart Spellling
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Fargo
Hit Man Richard Linklater
GNX Kendrick Lamar

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