Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Amal El-Mohtar

The River Has Roots
- Best Books of 2025: Book Riot
- The 35 Best Books of 2025: Adam Morgan: Esquire

Trending Lists

2025 Dublin Literary Award
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize

Trending Works

Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
XXX Danny Brown
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Magic, Alive! McKinley Dixon
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
Holy Motors Leos Carax
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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