Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Charmaine Wilkerson

Lists

Our Favorite Books of 2022: Oprah Daily

The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022: BBC: BBC Culture
Favorite Books of 2022: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Hit Man Richard Linklater
Fargo
Her Spike Jonze
Flesh David Szalay
Promises Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) Jesse Q. Sutanto
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Claire McCardell Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Pig Michael Sarnoski
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Choke Enough Oklou
We Should All Be Birds Brian Buckbee with Carol Ann Fitzgerald
Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang

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