Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Best Books of 2024: Economist

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The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

The Sunshine Place
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Oracle Cate Marvin
Fingernails Christos Nikou
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Liars Sarah Manguso
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater

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