Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Inkoo Kang: New Yorker: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Jonathan Swift

His Life and His World

by Leo Damrosch

Lists

Nonfiction 2014: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
We the People Jill Lepore
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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