Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Non-Fiction 2025: Women's Prize
100 Notable Books of 2025: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Common Side Effects
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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