Year-End Lists

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

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Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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by Okzharp & Manthe Ribane

Lists

70 Best Albums of 2018: PopMatters

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
Liars Sarah Manguso
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
Fingernails Christos Nikou
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Clean Slate
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Idlewild Idlewild
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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