Year-End Lists

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

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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The 50 Best TV Show of 2022: Guardian

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Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Sly Thom Zimny
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Clean Slate
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
Liars Sarah Manguso
Idlewild Idlewild
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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