Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The House of Doors
The Garden of Evening Mists
- 2012 Award: The Booker Prize
- 11 Best Books of 2012: Economist

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Tiny Dinos
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Staying Vertical Alain Guiraudie
Pivot
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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