Year-End Lists

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

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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From a Notebook

by Joan Didion

Lists

Best Books of 2017: Harper’s Bazaar

Trending Lists

The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Sunshine Place
Clean Slate
Oracle Cate Marvin
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Liars Sarah Manguso

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