Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
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Wake the Dead
1. Favorite Roots Albums of 2024: No Depression

Chuck Prophet

The Land That Time Forgot
- Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade
Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
1. 20 Favorite Albums of 2017: Listening Through The Lens

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
The Boy Who Played the Harp Dave
Stage Four Touché Amoré
Dept. Q
Flesh David Szalay
KicK iii Arca
The Genius Myth Helen Lewis
KICK ii Arca
False Dawn George Selgin
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty
Vortex Gaspar Noé
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Empire of AI Karen Hao

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