Year-End Lists

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

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

Lists

Best Books of 2011: Publishers Weekly
The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s: Paste

Fiction 2012: Women's Prize

Trending Lists

10 Best Books of 2015 Washington Post
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Succession
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Getting Killed Geese
Roma Alfonso Cuaron
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
We’re Not Talking The Goon Sax
The Post Steven Spielberg
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade

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