Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Clare Beams

The Garden
- 21 Best Books of 2024: Vanity Fair
The Illness Lesson
- The Best Books Of 2020: Bustle
- Favorite Novels of 2020: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The 30 Best Films of 2023 Little White Lies
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2023 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
10 Best Podcasts of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
We Do Not Part Han Kang
How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Silver Eye Goldfrapp
Family Portrait Ross from Friends
Long Story Short
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
XXX Danny Brown

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