Year-End Lists

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

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Lists

The Best Country Music Albums of 2024: Holler
Top 10 Albums of 2024: Jeff Nelson: People

The Best Albums of 2024: Atwood Magazine

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Alpha Julia Ducournau
Get Out Jordan Peele
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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