Year-End Lists

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

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Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
A.S. Hamrah: n+1: The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024
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A Lover's Discourse
- Favorite Novels of 2020: Electric Lit
- Best Fiction of 2020: Goldsmiths Prize
Nine Continents
- 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2017: Kate Tuttle: Boston Globe
I Am China
- Fiction 2015: Women's Prize

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024 A.S. Hamrah · n+1
Best Albums of 2024 Jon Pareles · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
Top 100 Albums of 2018 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Allies at War Tim Bouverie
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
The Edge of the Alphabet Janet Frame
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Playboi Carti Playboi Carti
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
GNX Kendrick Lamar
Oslo, August 31st Joachim Trier
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
The House Rabbit of Jesus Green Richard Thomas

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