Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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by Jesse Ball

Lists

Best Books Of 2018: Kristin Iversen: Nylon
Best Fiction of 2018: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo

Trending Works

Open City Teju Cole
Terminal ZULI
Dry Leaf Aleksandre Koberidze
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything Jane Wong
Revel in the Drama Ren Harvieu
Weapons Zach Cregger
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
XXX Danny Brown
The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr.
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
A People's History of Heaven Mathangi Subramanian
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar

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