Year-End Lists

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

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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War

How Conflict Shaped Us

by Margaret MacMillan

Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Alpha Julia Ducournau
Weapons Zach Cregger
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
XXX Danny Brown
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Antidote Karen Russell

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