Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Brian Dillon

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- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023: Washington Post
Suppose a Sentence
- Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Books of 2021 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Idlewild Idlewild
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Devil's Plan
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Clean Slate
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Liars Sarah Manguso

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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