Year-End Lists

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

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
New York Public Library: Best Books for Adults 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Caleb Azumah Nelson

Small Worlds
Open Water
1. The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021: Annabel Gutterman: Time

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Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic

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Boom Town Sam Anderson
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Bent by Nature
Tár Todd Field
Urchin Harris Dickinson
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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