Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Penelope Fitzgerald

A Life

by Hermione Lee

Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2014: Jane Ciabattari: BBC: BBC Culture

The 10 Best Books of 2014: New York Times: New York Times
The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Bird Andrea Arnold
The Boy Who Played the Harp Dave
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Getting Killed Geese
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
Barton Hollow The Civil Wars
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Valley of Forgetting Jennie Erin Smith
The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff
Eusexua FKA twigs
Andor
Like a Ribbon John Glacier
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark

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