Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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- The Best Books of 2025: Economist
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- Best Books of 2022: Economist

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of the 2010s RogerEbert.com
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

Leaving Neverland Dan Reed
What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella
James Blake James Blake
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri
The Post Steven Spielberg
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
We Lived on the Horizon Erika Swyler

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