Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The Octopus Museum

by Brenda Shaughnessy

Lists

5 Best Poetry Books of 2019: Publishers Weekly
Best Poetry of 2019: Library Journal
100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
American Prison Shane Bauer
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
Succession
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Babygirl Halina Reijn
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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