Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2022: J. Howard Rosier: Chron

10 of the Best Poetry Collections of 2022: Connie Pan: Book Riot
Poetry 2022: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

Flesh David Szalay
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Antidote Karen Russell
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
XXX Danny Brown
In the Dark
My Adventures with Superman
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Getting Killed Geese
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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