Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Maureen Corrigan: NPR: 10 Favorite Books of 2025
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Jane Campion and Ariel Kleiman

Top of the Lake: China Girl

Trending Lists

Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

Trending Works

The Antidote Karen Russell
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Rakshak Bloodywood
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson

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