Year-End Lists

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

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Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The Confidence Men

How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

by Margalit Fox

Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021: Washington Post

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2023 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Nine Inch Nails
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection Dril
Hits of Ash African-American Sound Recordings
Becoming Cousteau Liz Garbus
This Is Happening LCD Soundsystem
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Portal Balu Brigada
Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse Mariah Carey
Life After Reid Davenport
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy

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