Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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Lists

The 50 Best TV Shows of 2023: Guardian

The Best TV Shows of 2023: Ben Travers: IndieWire
The Best TV Shows Of 2022: HuffPost
Best Television of 2022: Passerby
The 23 Best TV Shows of 2022: Vanity Fair

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Southernmost Leo Boix
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
XXX Danny Brown
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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