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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe

When McKinsey Comes to Town
- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022: Washington Post
- 100 Notable Books of 2022: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Resurrection Bi Gan
Fear of a Black Universe Stephon Alexander
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Feu Nekfeu
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be Nichole Perkins

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