Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Movies of 2023
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
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by Hilary Leichter

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Lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

The Best Books of 2020: Thrillist
The Best Books of 2020: Claire Fallon: HuffPost
Top 10 Books of 2020: New York Public Library

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum

Trending Works

The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Run Away With A Wild And A Rare One Wave Generators
Love in Exile Shon Faye
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Song of the Cell Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hail and Farewell Abby E. Murray
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
Fierce Poise Alexander Nemerov
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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