Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Dee Rees

Lists

Favorite Fifteen Films of 2015: Marya E. Gates

Best Black Films of the 2010s: Jourdain Searles

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Alpha Julia Ducournau
We the People Jill Lepore
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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