Year-End Lists

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

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Adam Morgan: Esquire: The 35 Best Books of 2025
Owen Gleiberman: Variety: The Best Movies of 2025
Resident Advisor: The Best Records of 2024
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by Patricia Engel

Lists

Books We Loved in 2023: Boston Globe
50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023: Washington Post
The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
Hinterlands Scott Barley
The Onania Club Tom Six
In Transit David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
Live Forever Bartees Strange
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
The Disintegrations Alistair McCartney
Alpha Julia Ducournau
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
I'm Your Woman Julia Hart
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic
Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers
The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy

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