Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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50 Best Albums of 2012: Spinner

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2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
Getting Killed Geese
Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
Arctic Passages Kieran Mulvaney
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The CIA Book Club Charlie English
Strange Hearts Secret Cities
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Allies at War Tim Bouverie
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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