Year-End Lists

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

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Alan Sepinwall: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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The Invention of Charlotte Brontë

A New Life

by Graham Watson

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50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025: Washington Post

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The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

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S***hole Country
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
hexed! aya
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
That Was Something Dan Callahan
World Wide Pop Superorganism
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Des fantômes Faune
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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