Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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1. Dean's List 2018: Robert Christgau

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50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
25 Best Films of 2018 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Interview with the Vampire
Bone Valley
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Beside Myself DJ Haram
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Bent by Nature
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
A Very English Scandal
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists

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