Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Julia
- Five Best Fiction Works of 2023: Bethanne Patrick: Los Angeles Times
The Heavens
The Country of Ice Cream Star
- Fiction 2015: Women's Prize

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
Thresholder Ian William Craig
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Vida
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It's Time... To Rise From the Grave Undeath

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