Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2025
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by Kris Davis Trio

Lists

40 Favorite Albums of My 2024: Brad Luen

The Best Albums of 2024: David Hajdu: The Nation

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The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite Films of 2011 Jonathan Rosenbaum · IndieWire · Village Voice Film Poll
Best Movies of 2022 Screen Slate
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Lighten Up Erin Rae
The Sunshine Place
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Idlewild Idlewild
Oracle Cate Marvin
Clean Slate
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Liars Sarah Manguso

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