Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Dublin Literary Award: 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best Novels of 2024: Electric Lit
The Best Books of 2024: Vogue
The 44 Best Books of 2024: Harper’s Bazaar

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Resurrection Bi Gan
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
Her Spike Jonze

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