Year-End Lists

A 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
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
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by Ted Chiang

Lists

100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times: New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2019: New York Times: New York Times
Favorite Books of 2019: Barack Obama
The 10 Best Books of 2019: Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune
The Best Books I Read in 2019: Constance Grady: Vox

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best TV Shows & Mini-Series of the 2010s The Playlist

Trending Works

Come and See Gurriers
Dead Meat The Tubs
CAJU Liniker
Satisfied Soul Brother Ali & Ant
LOL: Last One Laughing UK
Tchotchke Tchotchke
Die to Wake Up from a Dream MF Tomlinson
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) Sierra Falconer
Madwoman Chelsea Bieker
King Coal Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Doga Juana Molina
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall
Foil Deer Speedy Ortiz

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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