Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Secondhand Time

The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich

Lists

10 Best Books of 2016: Publishers Weekly

The 10 Best Books of 2016: Washington Post
15 Best Fiction Books of 2016: John Freeman: Boston Globe
Top 10 Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle
The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
American Prison Shane Bauer
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
American Eden Victoria Johnson
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Succession

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