Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

The 50 Best TV Show of 2022: Guardian
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Guardian

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite Novels of 2021 Electric Lit
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

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

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