Year-End Lists

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

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Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2026
James Poniewozik: New York Times: Best TV Shows of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression
- Favorite Films of 2011: Dennis Harvey: San Francisco Bay Guardian Documentaries

Trending Lists

2026 Award The Booker Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Books of 2018 Time
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Guardian
11 Best Books of 2015 Entertainment Weekly
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Good Times! The Monkees
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Still Brazy YG
I Never Learn Lykke Li
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Horses Jake Skeets
Defiance Loubna Mrie
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff

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