Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Katherine Arden

The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- The Best Novels of 2024: Paste
The Bear and the Nightingale
- 2017 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Zbig Edward Luce
Resurrection Bi Gan
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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