Year-End Lists

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

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Spin: The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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by John Lanchester

Lists

Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
The Best Books of the Year 2020: Lindsay Baker: BBC: BBC Culture
Best Fiction of 2020: Guardian

Trending Lists

The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s Spin
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2020 Award The Booker Prize
Favorite Films of 2017 Nicole Brenez · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Solitude(s) L’insomnie Valérie Massadian
The Neon Demon Nicolas Winding Refn
Always Be My Maybe Nahnatchka Khan
The Grandmaster (U.S. cut) Wong Kar-Wai
Slanting Towards the Sea Lidija Hilje
Middle Spoon Alejandro Varela
Case Study Graeme Macrae Burnet
The End MC Hyland
Us Fools Nora Lange
Masterminds Jared Hess
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Steven Universe: The Movie Rebecca Sugar
The Heart That Fed Carl Sciacchitano

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