Year-End Lists

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

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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The Best New Novels of 2025 Nora Biette-Timmons
The Best (New) Books I Read in 2024 Nora Biette-Timmons

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Resurrection Bi Gan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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