Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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The Atmospherians

by Alex McElroy

Lists

The 50 Best Books of 2021: Esquire
Favorite Novels of 2021: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Best Albums of 2018 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
10 Best Movies of 2025 Odie Henderson · Boston Globe
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
Dinner in America Adam Rehmeier
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
XXX Danny Brown
Wicked Jon M. Chu
A Star Is Born Soundtrack Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Special Lizzo
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Weapons Zach Cregger
Beanpole Kantemir Balagov

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