Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Own Side Now

by Caitlin Rose

Lists

Top 10 Albums of 2011: Claire Suddath: Time
Top 50 Albums of 2011: American Songwriter

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
American Prison Shane Bauer
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Here Robert Zemeckis
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Succession
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer

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