Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Here Comes the Sun

by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Lists

The 20 Best Books of 2016: Entertainment Weekly

2016 First Novel Prize: The Center for Fiction
100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Resurrection Bi Gan
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
The Winter Soldier Daniel Mason
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Feu Nekfeu
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be Nichole Perkins
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Fear of a Black Universe Stephon Alexander

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