Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Top 5 Films of 2012: Gabe Klinger: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Run Me to Earth Paul Yoon
Félicité Alain Gomis
Seven Empty Houses Samanta Schweblin
The Invisible Man Leigh Whannell
Tiny Empire Chatterton
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing Hu Anyan
The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff
M Myrkur
You're Weird Now Guerilla Toss
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Getting Killed Geese
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
Silver Bullets Joe Swanberg
David Byrne's American Utopia Spike Lee

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