Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

Lists

Top Ten Books of 2015: Chicago Public Library

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Liars Sarah Manguso
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Fingernails Christos Nikou
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Clean Slate
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Sly Thom Zimny

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