Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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by Louise Erdrich

Lists

The 20 Best Books of 2016: Entertainment Weekly

15 Best Fiction Books of 2016: John Freeman: Boston Globe
100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle
Best Fiction of 2016: Powell's Books
Top 10 Fiction Books of the 2010s: Entertainment Weekly

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Death by Lightning
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Like a Ribbon John Glacier
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff
The Kingdom: Exodus Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
2 Foxwarren
The Boy Who Played the Harp Dave
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Eusexua FKA twigs
Bird Andrea Arnold
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski

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

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