Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
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by Jonathan Wilson

Lists

Our Top 100 Albums of 2020: Les Inrocks

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 23 Best TV Shows of 2023 Daily Beast
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Liars Sarah Manguso
Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Sly Thom Zimny
The Sunshine Place
Oracle Cate Marvin
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Clean Slate

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