Year-End Lists

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

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Peter Bradshaw: Guardian: 10 Best Films of 2012
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The Lightness

by Emily Temple

Appears on two lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Ten Best Films of 2025 Jeffrey M. Anderson · Combustible Celluloid
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
Best Films of 2016 Aaron Hillis · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
10 Best Films of 2012 Peter Bradshaw · Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Consequence

Trending Works

Nightcrawler Dan Gilroy
Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener
Forged Prescriptions Tony O’Neill
The Good Place
Cartoons Kit Schluter
The Errors Tour Brian Alan Ellis
The Squimbop Condition David Leo Rice
Sourcebooks Peggy Ahwesh
Idiocy Pierre Guyotat
Reading the Waves Lidia Yuknavitch
The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
Ears, Nose and Throat Kevin Jerome Everson

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