Year-End Lists

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

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Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Paulette Jiles

Simon the Fiddler
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post
News of the World

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
XXX Danny Brown
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
On Falling Laura Carreira
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Strange Hearts Secret Cities
Southernmost Leo Boix
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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