Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2024
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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The Throwback Special

by Chris Bachelder

Appears on one list

Fiction 2016: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Best Films of 2016 Sam Weisberg · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 A.V. Club
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Best Albums of 2017 Mojo
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

A Separation Asghar Farhadi
Interview with the Vampire
Nana Jean Renoir
A Very English Scandal
Blackstar David Bowie
Killjoys
As You Were Liam Gallagher
Beans On Toast With Pythagoras One More Grain
Uthingo Le Nkosazana Nkosazana Daughter
What an Owl Knows Jennifer Ackerman
Hotel Shampoo Gruff Rhys
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Men Without Women Haruki Murakami
The Misandrists Bruce La Bruce

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