Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
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Writers & Lovers

by Lily King

Lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

10 Top Books of 2020: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air
Favorite Novels of 2020: Electric Lit
100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times
Top 20 Books of 2020: Chicago Public Library
10 Best Books of 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Books of 2019 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2023 Paste
2012 Year in Review Aquarium Drunkard
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2023 Marilou Duponchel · Les Inrocks
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 10 Films of 2022 Marilou Duponchel · Les Inrocks
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
Writers & Lovers Lily King
Our Share of Night Mariana Enriquez
Sore Thumb Oso Oso
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing to Go Back To Richmond Fontaine
Eusexua FKA twigs
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tomas Alfredson
Weapons Zach Cregger
Between the Times and the Tides Lee Ranaldo
The world within our bedrooms Drug Store Romeos

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