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
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Top 20 Albums of 2025: A Closer Listen
Albums of the Year 2025: Loud And Quiet

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The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018 Wall Street Journal
10 Best Books of 2017 Library Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Pillion Harry Lighton
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
American Eden Victoria Johnson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
American Prison Shane Bauer

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