Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Lists

Fiction 2025: National Book Award
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025: Washington Post
The Best Books of 2025: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
10 Best Books of 2017 Library Journal
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Common Side Effects
Pillion Harry Lighton
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson

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