Year-End Lists

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

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Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Atlantic: The Best Books of 2025
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The Featherweight

by Robert Kolodny

Lists

The Best Movies of 2024: Richard Brody: New Yorker

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Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

After Yang Kogonada
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Tár Todd Field
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Bent by Nature
Urchin Harris Dickinson
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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