Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize

Lists

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2024 Award
2023 Award
2022 Award
2021 Award
2020 Award

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Records of the Year 2011 Rise

Trending Works

Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Rakshak Bloodywood

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