Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Ann Leckie

The Raven Tower
- The 10 Best Books of 2019: Dan Kois: Slate
Ancillary Mercy
- 50 Best Books of 2015: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
We the People Jill Lepore
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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