Year-End Lists

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

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Resident Advisor: The Best Records of 2024
Adam Morgan: Esquire: The 35 Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
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The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

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Lists

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024: Annabel Gutterman: Time

The 10 Best Books of 2024: Laura Miller: Slate
The Best Books of 2024: Boston Globe
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024: Washington Post
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024: Time
The Best Nonfiction of 2024: BookPage
21 Best Books of 2024: Vanity Fair

Trending Lists

The Best Records of 2024 Resident Advisor
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2020 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Movies of 2025 Ty Burr
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 35 Best Books of 2025 Adam Morgan · Esquire
Best Movies of 2020 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The 50 Best Albums of 2022 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Live Forever Bartees Strange
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
The Sirens of Mars Sarah Stewart Johnson
It's a Sin
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
I'm Your Woman Julia Hart
The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy
An Oral History of Atlantis Ed Park
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
Melancholia Lars von Trier
The Onania Club Tom Six
Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers

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