Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
James Poniewozik: New York Times: Best TV Shows of 2025
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Sweetgirl

by Travis Mulhauser

Appears on one list

2016 First Novel Prize: The Center for Fiction Longlisted

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
11 Best Books of 2015 Entertainment Weekly
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Poetry 2026 National Book Award
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Guardian
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Good Times! The Monkees
A World Appears Michael Pollan
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Seeing Ghosts Kat Chow
Horses Jake Skeets
Islah Kevin Gates
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
Only Lovers Left Alive Jim Jarmusch
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
The Water Elena López Riera
Defiance Loubna Mrie
Sawayama Rina Sawayama

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