Year-End Lists

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

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Lists

Top Books of 2025 WBUR · Here & Now
Top Books of 2024 WBUR · Here & Now
Best Books of 2022 The Stacks Podcast

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Top 100 Albums of 2017 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 20 Movies of 2020 K. Austin Collins · Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2015 Complex
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Maffia
The Fighter David O. Russell
XXX Danny Brown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Contagion Steven Soderbergh
Dying for Sex
Tonight in Jungleland Peter Ames Carlin
The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
War for the Planet of the Apes Matt Reeves
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt
Kiff
Getting Killed Geese

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