Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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The Art of Memoir

by Mary Karr

Lists

50 Best Books of 2015: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of the 2010s RogerEbert.com
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Adults
What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
Boom Town Sam Anderson
All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
We Lived on the Horizon Erika Swyler
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
James Blake James Blake
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Leaving Neverland Dan Reed

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