Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Arctic Passages Kieran Mulvaney
Allies at War Tim Bouverie
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Getting Killed Geese
Strange Hearts Secret Cities
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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