Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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15 Best Pop Music Albums of 2024: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
19 Best Albums of 2024: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
21 Best Albums of 2024: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
62 Top 100 Albums of 2024: Louder Than War

The Best Albums of 2024: Chris Willman: Variety Honorable mention

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2026 National Book Award
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2026 Women's Prize
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
The Monsanto Years Neil Young & Promise of the Real
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
The Tsugua Diaries Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice

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