Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Against All Logic

2017 - 2019
2012-2017
- 23 Best Albums of 2018: Atlantic

Trending Lists

Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
10 Best Books of 2017 Library Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Pillion Harry Lighton
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
American Eden Victoria Johnson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
Succession
American Prison Shane Bauer
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna

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