Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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The Best Films of 2016: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: A.V. Club

15 Favorite Films of 2016: Dennis Cooper

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Good Living Is Coming For You Sweeping Promises
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Second Mansions Le Concorde
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Getting Killed Geese
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
Barton Hollow The Civil Wars
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Slow West John Maclean

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