Year-End Lists

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

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Maureen Corrigan: NPR: 10 Favorite Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Catherine Lacey

Lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

2021 Award: Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Books of 2020: Thrillist

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall

Trending Works

Big Time Angel Olsen
At Fargrounds Jacken Elswyth
Bo Burnham: Inside Bo Burnham
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Dead Man’s Wire Gus Van Sant
Suspicious Minds
Adolescence
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Wellwater Karen Solie
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Revengeseekerz Jane Remover
Too Much
Museum Music Edward Skeletrix

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