Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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In Review Online: Best Films of 2025
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Nick Schager: Daily Beast: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
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by Jonathan Franzen

Lists

15 Best Books of 2015: Harper’s Bazaar

10 Best Books of 2015: Washington Post
Best Fiction Books of 2015: Powell's Books
50 Best Books of 2015: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Trending Lists

Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Nick Schager · Daily Beast
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Black Metal Dean Blunt
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Grey Album Kevin Young
Close Your Eyes Blue Ranger
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
Blank Check
North Sun Ethan Rutherford
Resurrection Bi Gan
Andor
Boarding House Reach Jack White
Souleymane's Story Boris Lojkine
Body Talk Robyn

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