Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Stephen Ulrich

Lists

Dean's List 2023: Robert Christgau

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Interview with the Vampire
Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
A Very English Scandal
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Maestro Bradley Cooper
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney

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