Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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How Democracies Die

by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Lists

Best Books of 2018: Time
Best Books of 2018: Paste

100 Notable Books of 2018: Washington Post
Favorite Books of 2018: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Keeper of the Shepherd Hannah Frances
Broker Hirokazu Kore-eda
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
XXX Danny Brown
Eddington Ari Aster
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Lowdown

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