Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Tadashi Nakamura

Lists

The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

That Was Something Dan Callahan
Wild World Bastille
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Varmints Anna Meredith
The 25th Anniversary of Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera
Mt. Marci Roc Marciano
XXX Danny Brown
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The Golden House Salman Rushdie
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman
Anita de Monte Laughs Last Xóchitl González
Room for the Moon Kate NV
More Love, Less Ego Wizkid
Rock N Roll Consciousness Thurston Moore

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