Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry

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The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
To Be Eaten Alive Mariah the Scientist
That Was Something Dan Callahan
Barton Hollow The Civil Wars
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
hexed! aya
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Bird Andrea Arnold
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott
S***hole Country

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