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
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Ben Kenigsberg: RogerEbert.com: Top Ten Films of 2025
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by Jeff VanderMeer

Lists

45 Best Books of 2017: Paste

36 Best Books of 2017: Los Angeles Times
22 Best Fiction Books of 2017: John Freeman: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Splitsville Michael Angelo Covino
Thresholder Ian William Craig
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Vida

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