Year-End Lists

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

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Life of the Mind

by Christine Smallwood

Lists

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021: Annabel Gutterman: Time

The Best Books of 2021: Thrillist
Favorite Novels of 2021: Electric Lit
15 Favorite Books of 2021: A.V. Club
The 20 Best Books of 2021: Atlantic
Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021: Lit Hub
Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Instinct Halina Reijn
Real Love Claire Burger
The Five-Year Engagement Nicholas Stoller
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Make It Scream, Make It Burn Leslie Jamison
Tranquilizer Oneohtrix Point Never
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
MEGA BBL Theodora
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
Flowers of Fire Hawon Jung
The American Revolution
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Come See Me in the Good Light Ryan White

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