Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Best TV Shows of 2025: Inkoo Kang: New Yorker

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025: TV Guide
The Best TV Shows of 2025: Alison Herman: Variety

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Crossroads Jonathan Franzen
The CIA Book Club Charlie English
The Loneliest Planet Julia Loktev
Moonlight Barry Jenkins
LP Big Stick
Dye It Blonde Smith Westerns
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez
The Galleons Rick Barot
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
House of Huawei Eva Dou

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