Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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- The Best Books of the Year 2020: Lindsay Baker: BBC: BBC Culture
So You Want to Talk About Race
1. Best Books of 2018: Paste
2. Best Books of 2018: Entropy

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
XXX Danny Brown
Eddington Ari Aster
Dìdi Sean Wang
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
Mister Universo Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
Tár Todd Field
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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