Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Tony Hoagland

Application for Release from the Dream
1. 16 Best Poetry Books of 2015: BuzzFeed
- 5 Best Poetry Collections of 2015: Elizabeth Lund: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2011 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
Cleanness Garth Greenwell
The Antidote Karen Russell
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Urchin Harris Dickinson
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Perfume Genius
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Irishman Martin Scorsese

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